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How to Translate from Seychellois Creole to Tetum
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Language Comparison: Seychellois Creole vs Tetum
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Aspect | Seychellois Creole | Tetum |
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Family | French-based Creole | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 108,000 | Around 800,000 speakers (including second-language speakers) |
Features | Derived from French with significant influences from African languages, Malagasy, and English; simplified grammar and phonetic spelling | An Austronesian language with significant Portuguese influence, serving as one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste; simple grammar and shared vocabulary with Indonesian/Malay |
Countries | Seychelles (official language alongside English and French) | Timor-Leste and Indonesia. |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses word order and prepositions instead | No, relies on word order and prepositions |
Derived From | 18th-century French, influenced by African and Malagasy languages | Proto-Austronesian, with heavy Portuguese lexical influence |
Loanwords | From African languages, Malagasy, English, and French | From Portuguese, Malay/Indonesian, and Arabic |
Dialects | No significant dialectal variations, as it is the lingua franca of Seychelles | Includes Tetun Dili (urban variety with heavy Portuguese influence) and Tetun Terik (more traditional and rural variety) |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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