- five main
Fataluku dialects are
identified as follows: East
Fataluku,
South Fataluku,
Central Fataluku,
North Fataluku and
Northwest Fataluku. The differences...
-
official language. The
language of the
Oecusse exclave is Uab Meto (Dawan).
Fataluku is a
Papuan language widely used in the
eastern part of the
country (often...
- East Timor, in the
districts of
Baucau and Viqueque, just to the west of
Fataluku. It is the most
widely spoken Papuan language west of New Guinea. The data...
-
reports an SIL
figure of 1,200
speakers from 1987. It is
closely related to
Fataluku, of
which it is
sometimes considered to be a dialect.
Oirata has five vowels:...
-
found that
Fataluku and
Oirata are
closer to each
other than they are to Makasai:
Makasai (including
Makalero dialect) Oirata–
Fataluku Fataluku (Rusenu perhaps...
- The
ethnic po****tion was 50 in 1981, but the
younger generation uses
Fataluku as
their first or
second language. A 2003
report estimated that
there were...
-
Portuguese approximation of the
local Fataluku language word Lauteinu. That word, in turn, is a
portmanteau of the
Fataluku words lau ('cloth') und tein ('sacred')...
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Timor Portuguese, Tetum, Mambae, Makasae, Tukudede, Bunak, Galoli, Kemak,
Fataluku, Baikeno,
others Indonesia Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Batak, Minangkabau...
- it is
derived from Lohoasupala, the name in
Fataluku, the
local Papuan language,
although nowadays Fataluku speakers use the name Lospala. The preferred...
-
Ethnologue lists the
following indigenous languages: Adabe, Baikeno, Bunak,
Fataluku, Galoli, Habun, Idaté, Kairui-Midiki, Kemak, Lakalei, Makasae, Makuv'a...
