Tyler Heston, affiliated Adjunct Researcher in the Linguistics Department publishes paper

Tyler Heston, affiliated Adjunct Researcher in the Linguistics Department published a paper in Language Documentation and Description 23(1): 3, 1-17.  This article is in their 'Language Contexts' series, which provides background information about the historical, geographic, and cultureal context of understudied languages. 

Abstract
The Fataluku people are a community of around 41,500 individuals in Timor-Leste, a nation in Island Southeast Asia.  Most members of the Fataluku community live at the eastern tip of the island of Timor, in the district of Lautém, though some have chosen to move to Dili-the capital of Timor-Leste - or abroad in search of economic advancement.  The Fataluku language is a member of the Eastern Timor subgroup of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family, which includes about thirty non-Austronesian languages spoken in Timor-Leste and eastern Indonesia.  The language community is growing and expresses positive attitudes toward their language, though there are some early warning signs of language shift.