Untitled Book - Mr. Orlando

Title: Untitled Book - Mr. Orlando
Creator: Gonsalves, Orlando (Cailoro)
Valentim, Justino (Cailoru)
Date Created: 1999-2014
Date: 1999/2014
Language: Fataluku
Collection: Fataluku Language and Culture
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description: Transcriptions of Vaihoho by Senor Valentim recorded in an exercise book. Senor Gonsalves (deceased) is the knowledge holder. The languauge is in high Fataluku, which few people now use or understand. Content of the sung poems is in two parts. Up to verse 26 are poems for the Cailoru tribal people, detailing local places, traditional names of people and orphan farewells. From verse 27 the vaihoho are about romantic relations among young girls and young boys.

Genre: notebook
Subject Geographic: Timor Leste
Resource type: text
Subjects: Fataluku language
Fataluku sung poems
Timor Leste languages
Fataluku oral traditions
Vaihoho