Makalero dialect

Makalero
Native to	East Timor
Region	Timor Island, eastern end around Baucau and inland, west of Fataluku, from northern to southern coast in a dialect chain.
Coordinates	8°39′S 126°30′E / 8.650°S 126.500°E
Native speakers	6,000 (2004)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea East Timor Makasae Makalero
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mjb
Glottolog	makl1245[1]
Distribution of Makalero mother-tongue speakers in East Timor

Makalero or Maklere is a dialect of Makasae spoken by 6,000 people in East Timor.

Numerals

• unu - One
• loloi - Two
• lolitu - Three
• Faata - Four
• lima - Five
• douhu - Six
• fitu - Seven
• afo - Eight
• siwa - Nine
• ruru-u - Ten
• ruu resi nu - Eleven
• ruu resi loloi -Twelve
• ruu resi lolitu - Thirteen
• ruu resi faata - Fourteen
• ruu resi lima - Fifteen

Literature

• Juliette Huber: A grammar of Makalero - A Papuan language of East Timor, LOT Utrecht 2011

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maklere". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.