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.
| Flores–Lembata | |
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| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands) |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | flor1239 |
Languages
editThe 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
editElias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.[2]
Linguistic areas are:[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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
edit- Doyle, Matthew (2010). Internal divisions of the Flores-Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (Master's thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/43446.