Mark, There is no problem with this. As I said, it will be Tetum, the national and official language of East Timor, with a standardised orthography established by the National Institute of Linguistics (INL) of East Timor.
The official Tetum, derives from the dialect of the capital city, Dili, known as "Tetum-Dili" or "Tetum-Praça" (or "Prasa").
As you may know, in the territory of East Timor there are another 15 languages with the status of "national language". But this Wikipedia would be in the official Tetum of East Timor.
Could anyone inform me what must be done in order to setup the Tetum Wikipedia?
Thanks & regards, Manuel de Sousa
-----Mensagem original----- De: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] Em nome de Mark Williamson Enviada: sábado, 14 de Janeiro de 2006 20:44 Para: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Assunto: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia in Tetum
One problem is, will it use Tetum or Tetun? Tetum is a creole language based on Tetun and is the national and official language of East Timor. Tetun is a regional language of Timor.
Tetum is basically a grammatically simplified form of Tetun with some words from other Timorese languages.
Mark
On 13/01/06, Manuel de Sousa manuel.sousa@tvtel.pt wrote:
Giuseppe, As far as I know, a Tetum Wikipedia was proposed last November and it
got
half a dozen people supporting the idea. However, there were no native speakers of the language supporting this project.
See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Native_speaker_s up
port#Tetum_.287_support.29
For those who don't know, Tetum is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste (or East Timor), the youngest independent nation in the
world
(the other official language is Portuguese).
Seeking for supporters, I recently sent mails to several people related
to
East Timor, and posted a few messages on some blogs and discussion
groups. I
immediately got several positive answers from native speakers of Tetum,
as
well as people with excellent command of the language (namely non-native speakers teachers of Tetum).
However, most of these people are not yet registered in the meta-wiki.
I'm
now seeing that they do register and express their support to this
project
as native speakers.
So, I'm absolutely convinced this Wikipedia in Tetum is viable, and that
it
can be an exceptional tool for East-Timorese to promote their national language internally and abroad.
So, as I guess there is a consensus to create a wiki in Tetum, I'm also interested in knowing what must be done in order to have this setup.
Must I
ask a developer? How can I do this?
Thanks & regards, Manuel de Sousa Porto, Portugal
-----Mensagem original----- De: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] Em nome de Giuseppe DAngelo Enviada: sexta-feira, 13 de Janeiro de 2006 10:11 Para: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Assunto: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia in Tetum
Could someone please confirm whether a Wikipedia in Tetum has recenlty been set up, or whether it is about to be set up? Thanks! pippu d'angelo
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