Fataluku
Facts
- Language: Fataluku
- Alternate names: Dagada, Dagaga, Dagoda’
- Language code: ddg
- Language family: Timor-Alor-Pantar, East Timor-Bunaq, East Timor, Fataluku-Oirata
- Number of speakers: 37000
- Script:
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Introduction
Fataluku is a language of Timor-Leste. It is spoken in Timor island east tip, Los Palos area.
Dialects
May be related to Oirata (See: Oirata) on nearby Kisar Island. Significant dialect variation. May be several languages.
The Fataluku Verb
Verblist
- fahine
- horon
- kerekere
- loke
- selu
- suku
- aci, haʔa, toto -- to see
- áemu -- to yawn
- alahu ceve -- to burn
- amuhoru -- to sniff, smell
- aracane -- to fall
- arure -- to cry
- aʔa-paʔi -- to cook
- caha, fulume, mate -- to spit
- eceremu -- to think
- ekehe -- to count
- ícuare, ímire -- to sit
- ínehere, inate -- to stand
- ipile -- to fly
- isake -- to bite
- isile -- to tie up, fasten
- itimese -- to suck
- iʔise -- to vomit
- kele -- to laugh
- lauhe -- to live, be alive
- laʔa -- to walk
- loise -- to hold
- mace -- to eat
- mahane, paura -- to fear
- maʔu -- to come
- nakaile -- to turn
- nava, una -- to drink
- navare -- to know, be knowledgeable
- náʔe -- to breathe
- numu-liliene -- to throw
- oʔose -- to steal
- oʔote -- to sew
- palise -- to swim
- sapu, soro -- to hunt
- sirivesi -- to work
- taja -- to sleep
- tapule -- to buy
- taʔa -- to say
- tia -- to chew
- uca -- to kill
- ufarana -- to dream
- umu -- to die, be dead
- utuʔe -- to plant
- vari -- to hear