Title: Língua, nome e identidade numa situação de plurilinguismo concorrencial: o caso de Timor-Leste1
Abstract: This essay discusses the interplay between language, name and identity in the plurilingual context of East-Timor.namely, I will approach the relationships between given and family name as one of the distinctive characters of the Timorese linguistic system.Through names and naming practices in East--Timor, and the way they are construed and articulated with other contemporary phenomena, I will discuss the different levels of cultural identity and the bases that support the configuration and sense of Timorese national identity.