Fataluku (also known as Dagaga, Dagoda', Dagada) is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 37,000 people of Fataluku ethnicity in the eastern areas of East Timor, especially around Lospalos. It is a member of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family, which includes languages spoken both in East Timor and nearby regions of Indonesia.[2] Fataluku's closest relative is Oirata,[3] spoken on Kisar island, in the Moluccas of Indonesia.[4] Fataluku is given the status of a national language under the constitution. Speakers of Fataluku normally have a command of Tetum and/or Indonesian,[5] those speakers who are educated under Portuguese rule or from younger generation educated under Portuguese-language educational system during independence speak Portuguese.
It has a considerable amount of Austronesian loanwords, and it has borrowed elements of Sanskrit and Arabic vocabulary via Malay and elements of Portuguese.[3]
The five main Fataluku dialects are identified as follows: East Fataluku, South Fataluku, Central Fataluku, North Fataluku and Northwest Fataluku. [6] The differences that exist between these dialects, especially beyond phonology, are unclear and require more research. Dialects differ with respect to the phonetic realization of palatal obstruents, the presence of a glottal stop phoneme and a voicing distinction in stops, as well as aspects of the stress system. [7]
^Fataluku at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Heston (2015), p. 3
^ abUsher, Timothy. "Fataluku". newguineaworld. Archived from the original on 2020-03-05.
^Heston (2015), p. 6
^Heston (2015), p. 5
^ Van Engelenhoven, Aone. 2009. On derivational processes in Fataluku, a non-Austronesian language in East Timor. In W.L. Wetzels (ed.), The linguistics of endangered languages: Contributions to morphology and morphosyntax, 331–362. Utrecht: LOT.
^Engelenhoven, Aone van & Juliette Huber. 2020. East Fataluku. In The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 3, vol. 3, 347–425. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511158.
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