Timor-Leste or East Timor or Timor Lorosa'e or Timor Timur or ...
Published by Alex Tilman on 10 February 2007 at 2:30:00 PMTimor-Leste = The official name of the country. Remember Burma? Now
it is called Myanmar. Portuguese Timor was replaced with Timor-Leste
after the country was unilaterally proclaimed independente by
Fretilin. In 2002, the Constituent Assembly restored Timor-Leste to
be the official name of the country. This is the name of the country
whether if you want to write in French, English or German.
East Timor = The unofficial English name.
Timor Lorosa'e = The unofficial East Timorese (Tetum) name.
Timor Timur = The official name of Timor-Leste when it was still
Indonesia's 27th province.
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If Tetum is one and arguably the first official language how is it that the correct way of writing the country's name in that language is not official?
I'm a bit confused...Please explain!