A First Systemised Collection of Unattested Kula (Tanglapui) Toponyms from Alor Island (Southeastern Indonesia)

This dataset collects a first systemised list of so far undocumented place names from the Kula (Tanglapui) language and territory in Alor Island (Alor-Pantar Archipelago, Southeast Indonesia, Timor Area).
It contains thirty-one entries of place names, documenting the toponymic landscape of the Kula-speaking region in East Alor. Each record in the dataset comprises the following core fields (when available):
1. Place Name
2. Name variant(s)
3. Gloss / Folk Etymology
4. Natural Source(s)
5. Story/History
6. Settlement Type
7. Location
8. Habitation Status (inhabited/abandoned)
9. Tribal Links (within Kula)
10. Tribal Links (outside Kula)

The collection was supported by the research grant “Place Names and Cultural Identity: Toponyms and Their Diachronic Evolution among the Kula People from Alor Island”—Research Development Fund (RDF) Grant, Grant Number: RDF-23-01-014 (Principal Investigator: Dr Francesco Perono Cacciafoco), funded by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou (Jiangsu), China, 2024–2025.