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Language Comparison: Tetum vs Samoan
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| Aspect | Tetum | Samoan |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Austronesian, Polynesian |
Speakers | Around 800,000 speakers (including second-language speakers) | Approximately 500,000 |
Features | 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 | A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa |
Countries | Timor-Leste and Indonesia. | Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States |
Writing System | Latin script | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, relies on word order and prepositions | No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Austronesian, with heavy Portuguese lexical influence | Proto-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Portuguese, Malay/Indonesian, and Arabic | From English and other Polynesian languages |
Dialects | Includes Tetun Dili (urban variety with heavy Portuguese influence) and Tetun Terik (more traditional and rural variety) | Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands |
Alphabets | 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 | A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ) |
Family
Tetum
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
Samoan
Austronesian, Polynesian
Speakers
Tetum
Around 800,000 speakers (including second-language speakers)
Samoan
Approximately 500,000
Features
Tetum
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
Samoan
A Polynesian language with a simple phoneme inventory and distinctive glottal stop, often arranged in VSO (verb-subject-object) word order; spoken primarily in Samoa and American Samoa
Countries
Tetum
Timor-Leste and Indonesia.
Samoan
Samoa, American Samoa, and diaspora communities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States
Writing System
Tetum
Latin script
Samoan
Latin script
Tonal
Tetum
No
Samoan
No
Grammatical Cases
Tetum
No, relies on word order and prepositions
Samoan
No, uses particles and word order to indicate grammatical relationships
Derived From
Tetum
Proto-Austronesian, with heavy Portuguese lexical influence
Samoan
Proto-Polynesian
Loanwords
Tetum
From Portuguese, Malay/Indonesian, and Arabic
Samoan
From English and other Polynesian languages
Dialects
Tetum
Includes Tetun Dili (urban variety with heavy Portuguese influence) and Tetun Terik (more traditional and rural variety)
Samoan
Primarily homogeneous, with minor regional differences in informal speech across Samoa’s islands
Alphabets
Tetum
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
Samoan
A, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, U, V, H, K, R (rare), and the glottal stop (ʻ)
Language Facts:
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