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 …

The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar and Kisar have long been thought to be
members of a single family. However, their relatedness has not yet been established …

Indonesia is home to over 700 languages. That amounts to around 10% of
theworld'slanguages. Itisonlyitseasternneighbor, PapuaNewGuinea, that …

This chapter presents an introduction to the Alor-Pantar languages, and to the chapters of
the volume. It discusses the current linguistic ecology of Alor and Pantar, the history of …

This paper demonstrates the existence of the Greater West Bomberai family, bringing the
Timor–Alor–Pantar language family of the Lesser Sunda islands into a genealogical unit …

This paper aims at documenting and reconstructing the linguistic processes generating and
substantiating the use of number systems, numbers in general, elementary arithmetic, and …

Earlier literature has suggested that colexification of terms for 'tree','firewood'and 'fire'may be
widespread in Australian and Papuan languages. This feature of Papuan and Australian …

Austronesians settled East Nusantara some 3800 years ago (Spriggs 2011), and it is widely
believed that these areas were previously populated with people (Bellwood 2007, Spriggs …

Abui (ISO identifier: abz) is spoken by around 17,000 people in central Alor, making it the
largest language in the Alor-Pantar archipelago (Kratochvíl 2007). The dialect described in …

Diachronic toponomastics and language reconstruction in South-east Asia according to an
experimental convergent methodology: Abui as a case-study. The aim of this paper is to …