Flores–Lembata languages
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Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands) |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Glottolog | flor1239 |
The Flores–Lembata languages are a group of related Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Lesser Sundas, on eastern Flores and small islands immediately east of Flores, Indonesia. They are suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, with extreme morphological simplification in Sika and secondarily in Alorese, but not to a greater extent than the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.
Languages
The generally accepted defined Flores–Lembata languages are:[1]
- Kedang
- Sika
- Lamaholot
In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language:
- Adonara
- Alorese
Lamaholot is a dialect chain. Ethnologue treats ten varieties as distinct languages.
Classification
Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.[2]
Linguistic areas are:[2]
- East Lembata: Kedan, Eastern Lamaholot
- Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot
See also
References
- ^ Fricke, Hanna L. (2019). Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/80399.
- ^ a b Elias, Alexander. 2017. Subgrouping the Flores–Lembata languages using Historical Glottometry. 9th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL9), 21–23 June 2017, LACITO, Paris.
Further reading
- Doyle, Matthew (2010). Internal divisions of the Flores-Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (Master's thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/43446.
External links
- LexiRumah (part of the Lesser Sunda linguistic databases)
- Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands
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- * indicates proposed status
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- † indicates extinct status