Publications

Publication details [#46527]

Williams-van Klinken, Catharina. 2004. Developing Electoral Terminology for a New Official Language: Tetun in East Timor. Current Issues in Language Planning 5 (2) : 142–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | language planning | loanword | official language | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Portuguese | Tetun

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article discusses a project of the Independent Electoral Commission and the United Nations Development Programme to work out adequate electoral terminology for Tetun, the official language of newly-independent East Timor.