Timor-Alor-Pantar languages
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The approximately 30 Timor-Alor-Pantar languages (TAP) form a language family of the Papuan languages . They are spoken on the Lesser Sunda Islands of Timor , Alor , Pantar , Kisar and Liran . The most commonly spoken languages in the language family are Makasae and Bunak , each with around 100,000 speakers.
classification
The Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are among the Trans New Guinea languages .
The language family is divided into at least two subgroups: Timor-Kisar (also just Timor ) and Alor-Pantar-Makasai . Ethnologue mentions Tanglapui as a further subgroup .
There are theories that the East Timorese Fataluku and other Timor-Alor-Pantar languages originally came from the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea .
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
- Antoinette Schapper and Rachel Hendery: The history of alignment in the Timor-Alor-Pantar family
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Marian Klamer and Antoinette Schapper: 'Give' Constructions in the Papuan Languages of Timor-Alor-Pantar
- ^ A b Antoinette Schapper, Juliette Huber & Aone van Engelenhoven: The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Timor and Kisar
- ^ The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Andrew McWilliam: Austronesians in linguistic disguise: Fataluku cultural fusion in East Timor ( Memento of November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 171 kB)