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.

Flores–Lembata
Geographic
distribution		Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
  • Kedang
  • Sika–Lamaholot
Glottologflor1239

Languages

The 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 considered to be a dialect chain. These dialects can be grouped into Eastern, Central and Western.[1] In contrast, Ethnologue presents many of these dialects as distinct languages.

Classification

Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.[2]

Flores-Lembata
  • Sika-Hewa
  • Kedang-Lamaholot
    • Kedang
    • Lamaholot
      • Central Lamaholot
      • Eastern-Western Lamaholot
        • Eastern Lamaholot
        • Alorese-Western Lamaholot

Linguistic areas are:[2]

  • East Lembata: Kedan, Eastern Lamaholot
  • Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot

See also

References
  1. Fricke, Hanna L. (2019). Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/80399.
  2. 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)
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