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Flores–Lembata
Geographic
distribution
Indonesia ( Lesser Sunda Islands)
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
  • Kedang
  • Sika–Lamaholot
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]

In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language:

Lamaholot is a dialect chain. Ethnologue treats ten varieties as distinct languages.

Classification

Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata. [2]

  • Flores-Lembata
    • Sika-Hewa
    • Kedang-Lamaholot
      • Kedang
      • Lamaholot
        • Central Lamaholot
        • Eastern-Western Lamaholot
          • Eastern Lamaholot
          • Alorese-Western Lamaholot

Linguistic areas are: [2]

  • East Lembata: Kedan, Eastern Lamaholot
  • Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot

See also

References

  1. ^ Fricke, Hanna L. (2019). Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl: 1887/80399.
  2. ^ 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.

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