Flores–Lembata languages
{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}
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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:{{Cite thesis |last=Fricke |first=Hanna L. |title=Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia |date=2019 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=Leiden University |hdl=1887/80399 |hdl-access=free}}
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.Elias, Alexander. 2017. Subgrouping the Flores–Lembata languages using Historical Glottometry. 9th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference ([https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2911/files/2017/06/APLL9_Book-of-abstracts_2017-06-04.pdf APLL9]), 21–23 June 2017, LACITO, Paris.
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- Flores-Lembata
- Sika-Hewa
- Sika
- Hewa
- Kedang-Lamaholot
- Kedang
- Lamaholot
- Central Lamaholot
- Eastern-Western Lamaholot
- Eastern Lamaholot
- Alorese-Western Lamaholot
- Alorese
- Western Lamaholot
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Linguistic areas are:
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite thesis |last=Doyle |first=Matthew |title=Internal divisions of the Flores-Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian |date=2010 |degree=Master's |publisher=Leiden University |hdl=1887/43446 |hdl-access=free }}
External links
- [https://lexirumah.model-ling.eu/lexirumah/ LexiRumah] (part of the [http://www.model-ling.eu/ Lesser Sunda linguistic databases])
- [https://vici.marianklamer.org/ Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands]
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{{Austronesian languages}}
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Category:Languages of Indonesia