Flores–Lembata languages
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. They are suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, for example in Sika, but not to any greater extent than the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.
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Geographic distribution | Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia) |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Subdivisions |
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Glottolog | flor1239[1] |
Languages
The generally accepted defined Flores–Lembata languages are:[2]
In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language:
Lamaholot is considered to be a dialect chain. These dialects can be grouped into Eastern, Central and Western.[2] In contrast, Ethnologue presents many of these dialects as distinct languages.
Classification
Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.[3]
- Flores-Lembata
- Sika-Hewa
- Sika
- Hewa
- Kedang-Lamaholot
Linguistic areas are:[3]
- East Lembata: Kedan, Eastern Lamaholot
- Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot
See also
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Flores–Lembata". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Fricke, Hanna L. (2019). Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/80399.
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)