Tetum language
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Tetum is a language spoken by the Tetum people, who are indigenous to the central part of Timor, an island in Indonesia. The Tetum people are of Melanesian and Indonesian-Malay descent and speak a Malayo-Polynesian dialect. Tetum is also one of the official languages of East Timor, alongside Portuguese, and is used in government and education. Additionally, Tetum is spoken by over 300,000 people.12
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