Pátria

Pátria
English: Fatherland

National anthem of  East Timor

Lyrics Francisco Borja da Costa, 1975
Music Afonso de Araujo, 1975
Adopted 2002

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Pátria

"Pátria" ("Fatherland") is the national anthem of East Timor. It was first used when East Timor unilaterally declared its independence from Portugal in 1975, moments before the Indonesian invasion. It was officially adopted as the national anthem when independence of East Timor was restored in 2002. It is the only national anthem in Southeast Asia not sung in indigenous Southeast Asian language but in Portuguese, an European language and also the co-official language of the country.

The music was composed by Afonso de Araujo, and the words were written by the poet Francisco Borja da Costa, who was killed on the day of the invasion. It was originally sung exclusively in Portuguese, however, there is now a Tetum version[1]

Lyrics

Portuguese lyrics English translation Tetum translation

Pátria, Pátria, Timor-Leste, nossa Nação.
Glória ao povo e aos heróis da nossa libertação.
Pátria, Pátria, Timor-Leste, nossa Nação.
Glória ao povo e aos heróis da nossa libertação.
Vencemos o colonialismo, gritamos:
abaixo o imperialismo.
Terra livre, povo livre,
não, não, não à exploração.
Avante unidos firmes e decididos.
Na luta contra o imperialismo
o inimigo dos povos, até à vitória final.
Pelo caminho da revolução.

Fatherland, fatherland, East Timor our Nation
Glory to the people and to the heroes of our liberation
Fatherland, fatherland, East Timor our Nation
Glory to the people and to the heroes of our liberation
We vanquish colonialism, we cry:
Down with imperialism!
Free land, free people,
No, no, no to exploitation.
Let us go forward, united, firm and determined
In the struggle against imperialism,
The enemy of people, until final victory,
Onward to revolution.

Pátria, Pátria, Timór-Leste, ita-nia Nasaun.
Glória ba Povu no ba ita-nia eróis libertasaun nasionál.
Pátria, Pátria, Timór-Leste, ita-nia Nasaun.
Glória ba Povu no ba ita-nia eróis libertasaun nasionál.
Ita manán hasoru kolonializmu, ita hakilar:
Hatuun imperializmu
Rai livre, Povu livre,
lae, lae, lae ba esplorasaun
Bá oin hamutuk, laran-metin no barani
Halo funu hasoru imperializmu
inimigu Povu hotu-hotu nian, to’o vitória finál
liu dalan revolusaun.

References

  1. ↑ "Símbolu Nasionál" (in Tetum). Governul Timor-Leste. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

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