Ai Sahe

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Ai Sahe was a rulership in the southeast of what is now East Timor . It was in the area of ​​today's city of Viqueque .

Waimaha , one of the Kawaimina languages , was spoken in the empire . When Tetum speakers immigrated to Viqueque from the west, they became the dominant power of the region with the empire of Luca . According to oral tradition, the founders of Luca immigrated from Wehale , the heartland of the Tetum in West Timor , 13 generations ago and joined the local clans by marriage, making the Tetum the leading force.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , pp. 345, 348 & 349, 2017, doi : 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 .