Wallacea is home to languages of the Austronesian language family, and to languages from
multiple Papuan, or non-Austronesian, language families. It has long been observed that the …

This paper refines the subgroupings of the Timor-Alor-Pantar (tap) family of Papuan
languages, using a systematic Bayesian phylogenetics study. While recent work indicates …

Traces of language contact; The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia Page 1
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Volume 21 Number 1 Panji stories I Article …

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

The Lesser Sunda Islands in eastern Indonesia cover a longitudinal distance of some 600
kilometres. They are the westernmost place where languages of the Austronesian family …

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 article presents a typological survey of patterns of adnominal possession in 85
Austronesian and Papuan languages of Linguistic Wallacea, providing a more granular …

This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the
islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar …

This article discusses the plural word hire in Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken on
the islands of Alor and Pantar, in eastern Indonesia. Following the methodological requisites …

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 …