Fataluku (also known as Dagaga, Dagoda', Dagada) is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 37,000 people of Fataluku ethnicity in the eastern areas...
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status as an official language. The language of the Oecusse exclave is Uab Meto (Dawan). Fataluku is a Papuan language widely used in the eastern part of...
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Hansa, German Steamship Company Hansa ddg, the ISO 639-3 code for the Fataluku language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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generation uses Fataluku as their first or second language. A 2003 report estimated that there were only five fluent speakers of the language. Noorderlicht...
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Lautém Municipality (category CS1 foreign language sources (ISO 639-2))
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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Papuan language spoken by about 100,000 people in the eastern part of East Timor, in the districts of Baucau and Viqueque, just to the west of Fataluku. It...
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found that Fataluku and Oirata are closer to each other than they are to Makasai: Makasai (including Makalero dialect) Oirata–Fataluku Fataluku (Rusenu perhaps...
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Flag of Timor-Leste Languages of Timor-Leste Bunak Fataluku language Makalero Makasae Mambai Tetum language Tocodede Waimoa language Wetarese Music of Timor-Leste...
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Tutuala (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
four hamlets (aldeia): Ioro, Pitileti, Tchailoro, and Vero. The main Fataluku language areas of the country are in Tutuala, as well as Lautem and Fuiloro...
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in the language. After Van Engelenhoven analysed and transcribed the recording, he concluded that Rusenu, "albeit remotely related to Fataluku, is a separate...
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Jaco Island (category Articles containing Fataluku-language text)
Jaco Island (Portuguese: Ilha de Jaco, Tetum: Illa Jako, Fataluku: Totina or Tontina) is an uninhabited island in Timor-Leste, a country occupying the...
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Valu Beach (category Articles containing Fataluku-language text)
Valu Beach (Fataluku: Valu Sere, Tetum: Tasi-ibun Valu, Portuguese: Praia Valu) is a public beach at the easternmost tip of mainland East Timor, and the...
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the Fataluku language, Makasae language and Makalero language, the existence of a Proto-Timor-Papuan language, from which all the Papuan languages of Timor...
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Dagaga may refer to: Degagah (disambiguation), places in Iran Fataluku language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dagaga...
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Timor-Leste (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
indigenous languages with up to 30 dialects.: 136 Aside from Tetum, Ethnologue lists the following indigenous languages: Adabe, Baikeno, Bunak, Fataluku, Galoli...
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Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...
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it is derived from Lohoasupala, the name in Fataluku, the local Papuan language, although nowadays Fataluku speakers use the name Lospala. The preferred...
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The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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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:...
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The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
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3,887 Bunak (Bunaq, Búnaque, Buna', Bunake, Mgai, Gai, Marae): 55,837 Fataluku (Fataluco, Fatalukunu, Dagaga, Dagoda, Dagada): 37,779 Galoli (Galóli,...
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Momuna (Momina), also known as Somahai (Somage, Sumohai), is a Papuan language spoken in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua and Asmat Regency, South Papua...
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The Kiwaian languages form a language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically...
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Proto-Trans–New Guinea is the reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Trans–New Guinea languages. Reconstructions have been proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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Makalero (redirect from Makalero language)
Makalero or Maklere is a Papuan language spoken in the Lautém district of East Timor. It was previously considered to be a dialect of Makasae, but is nowadays...
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a moribund Papuan language of the Kolopom branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It is separated from the other Kolopom languages by the intrusive Marind...
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The Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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4333333, east of Wetar Island. Alternate names in use are Roma, Romonu and Fataluku. The group includes neighbouring smaller islands including Nyata to the...
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The Alor–Pantar languages are a family of clearly related Papuan languages spoken on islands of the Alor archipelago near Timor in southern Indonesia....
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The Kainantu–Goroka languages are a family of Papuan languages established by Arthur Capell in 1948 under the name East Highlands. They formed the core...
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