Hermann Winkler [SEP] native language
Hermann Winkler
Hermann Julian Winkler (born 22 April 1963) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 2009 until 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. From 2004 to 2007 he was Cabinet Minister and Head of the State Chancellery of Saxony.
Education and personal life.
After his Abitur, Winkler entered the Technical University of Magdeburg to study mechanical engineering and graduated as Dipl.-Ing.. From 1988 to 1990
took over governance in September 1999, Tetun (Dili) was proclaimed the country's official language, even though according to "Encarta Winkler Prins" it was only spoken by about 8% of the native population at the time, while the elite (consisting of 20 to 30 families) spoke Portuguese and most adolescents had been educated in Indonesian. When East Timor gained its independence on 20 May 2002, Tetum and Portuguese were declared as official languages. The 2010 census found that Tetum Prasa had 385,269 native speakers on a total