Alor Pantar Makasai languages
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The Alor-Pantar-Makasai languages form a language family of the Papuan languages . They are spoken on the Lesser Sunda Islands of Timor and Pantar . The most widely spoken language in the language family is Makasae, with more than 100,000 speakers.
classification
The Alor-Pantar-Makasai languages belong to the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages and thus to the Trans-New Guinea languages .
The Alor Pantar Makasai languages include:
- Adabe : East Timor
- Makalero : Southeast Timor
- Makasae : East Timor
- Westpantar (Lamma): Western Pantar
- Teiwa : central pantar
- Blagar : Eastern Pantar and smaller islands
- Nedebang : northeast pantar
- Retta : on the islands of Pura and Ternate between Alor and Pantar.
- Kaera :
- Tereweng :
- Clone : West Alor
- Kui : South coast of Alor
- Kafoa (Jafoo):
- Abui :
- Hamap :
- Kabola :
- Adang : Northwest Alor
- Kamang (Woisika): Zentralalor
- Kolona (Wersing): Coast of Eastern Alor
- Kula : East Alor
- Sawila : Southeastern
See also
Web links
- Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, František Kratochvíl, Laura C. Robinson, Antoinette Schapper: The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Marian Klamer and Antoinette Schapper: 'Give' Constructions in the Papuan Languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar
- ^ Antoinette Schapper, Juliette Huber & Aone van Engelenhoven: The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Timor and Kisar