2016/07/13 by Tyler Heston, Stephanie Locke · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Multilingual Education and Policy #Categorization, perception, and language #Indonesian #Timor leste #Geography #Southeast asia #New guinea #Ethnology #Socioeconomics #Ancient history #History #Sociology #Linguistics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100316000190
openalex publication_date 2016/07/13 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Fataluku ([fataluku], ISO 639-3: ddg ) is a language spoken by approximately 37,000 people on the eastern end of Timor-Leste (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2016). Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is an independent nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor in island Southeast Asia, which it shares politically with Indonesia in the west. Timor is located north of Australia, between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Bali in the west and New Guinea in the east.