[PDF][PDF] The relatedness of Timor-Kisar and Alor-Pantar languages: A preliminary demonstration

A Schapper, J Huber… - The Alor-Pantar …, 2017 - library.oapen.org
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 …

The Greater West Bomberai language family

T Usher, A Schapper - Oceanic Linguistics, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
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 …

Understanding through the numbers: number systems, their evolution, and their perception among Kula people from Alor Island, Southeastern Indonesia

S Wu, F Perono Cacciafoco - Humans, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper aims at documenting and reconstructing the linguistic processes generating and
substantiating the use of number systems, numbers in general, elementary arithmetic, and …

Dinámicas políticas y económicas en el dominio ritual y la vida cotidiana en Timor Oriental: estudios de caso desde la aldeia de Faulara

A Fidalgo Castro - 2015 - ruc.udc.es
Esta tesis es una monografía etnográfica realizada en Timor-Leste, país del Sudeste
Asiático, que se centra de modo principal–aunque no únicamente–en una aldeia del distrito …

The legend of Lamòling: Unwritten memories and diachronic toponymy through the lens of an Abui myth

FP Cacciafoco, F Cavallaro - Lingua, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reconstructs a number of Abui (Papuan) place names and micro-toponyms from
the coastal area of Alor (South-East Indonesia) through the analysis of a legend centered on …

Bleeding Languages: Blood Types and Linguistic Groups in the Timor Anthropological Mission

R Roque - Current Anthropology, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article explores the shared histories of blood groups, racial conceptions, and linguistics
in the late twentieth-century Portuguese colonial science of anthropobiology in Oceania. It …

[PDF][PDF] Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Sketch Grammars. Volume 3

A Schapper - The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar …, 2020 - research.vu.nl
Documentary and descriptive work on Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) languages has proceeded at
a rapid pace in the last 15 years. The publication of the volumes of TAP sketches by Pacific …

Poetic text and melodic text: Text-setting in two song traditions of Timor

P Yampolsky - Asian Music, 2022 - muse.jhu.edu
Two traditions of unaccompanied singing in rural Timor—vaihoho duets of Fataluku
speakers (Timor-Leste) and choral kananuk of the Southern Tetun (Timor-Leste and …

The nature and underlying representations of long vowels and diphthongs in Fataluku

T Heston - Oceanic Linguistics, 2014 - JSTOR
Fataluku is an underdocumented Papuan language spoken by approximately 37,000
individuals in East Timor, a nation in island Southeast Asia. After providing some …

Fataluku

TM Heston, S Locke - Journal of the International Phonetic …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Fataluku ([fataluku], ISO 639-3: ddg) is a language spoken by approximately 37,000 people
on the eastern end of Timor-Leste (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2016). Timor-Leste, also known …