Fataluku

The Fataluku are a Papuan people of the far eastern tip of Timor around Tutuala and Lospalos, whose Timor-Alor-Pantar language is closest to Oirata on Kisar and carries Austronesian, Malay and Portuguese loanwords from long trade contacts. Known in older Portuguese sources as the Dagada, they lived in local chiefdoms inside the indirect Portuguese colonial sphere in eastern Timor.