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.本数据集收录了阿洛岛（印度尼西亚东南部帝汶地区阿洛-潘塔尔群岛）库拉语（Tanglapui）及其使用区域内，迄今尚未被记载的地名的首份系统化整理名录。 本数据集共包含31条地名条目，旨在记录东阿洛地区库拉语使用区域的地名景观。数据集中的每条记录（若有相关信息）均包含以下核心字段： 1. 地名（Place Name） 2. 名称异写（异名）(Name variant(s)) 3. 释义/民间词源 (Gloss / Folk Etymology) 4. 自然成因（Natural Source(s)） 5. 故事/历史背景 (Story/History) 6. 聚落类型 (Settlement Type) 7. 地理位置 (Location) 8. 居住状态（有人居住/已废弃）(Habitation Status (inhabited/abandoned)) 9. 库拉内部部落关联 (Tribal Links (within Kula)) 10. 库拉外部部落关联 (Tribal Links (outside Kula)) 本数据集的编撰得到了中国江苏省苏州市西安交通大学利物浦大学（XJTLU）人文与社会科学学院（HSS）资助的研究发展基金（Research Development Fund, RDF）项目支持，项目名称为《阿洛岛库拉族的地名与文化身份：地名及其历时演变》，项目编号为RDF-23-01-014，首席研究员为Francesco Perono Cacciafoco博士，资助周期为2024–2025年。