The historical relations of the papuan languages of alor and pantar

• Main Authors: Klamer, Marian., Holton, Gary., Kratochvil, Frantisek, Robinson, Laura C., Schapper, Antoinette.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Historical linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100781; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18201
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The historical relations of the Papuan languages scattered across the islands of the Alor archipelago, Timor, and Kisar in southeast Indonesia have remained largely conjectural. This paper makes a first step toward demonstrating that the languages of Alor and Pantar form a single genealogical gro...