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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, with extreme morphological simplification in Sika and secondarily in Alorese, but not to a greater extent than the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.

Flores–Lembata
Geographic distribution	Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (Central) Bima–Lembata? Flores–Lembata
Subdivisions	Kedang Sika–Lamaholot
Glottolog	flor1239

Languages

The generally accepted defined Flores–Lembata languages are:[1]

• Kedang
• Sika
• Lamaholot

In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language:

• Adonara
• Alorese

Lamaholot is a dialect chain. Ethnologue treats ten varieties as distinct languages.

Classification

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

Flores-Lembata

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

Linguistic areas are:[2]

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

See also

• Central Flores languages

References

Further reading

• Doyle, Matthew (2010). Internal divisions of the Flores-Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (Master's thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/43446.

External links

• LexiRumah (part of the Lesser Sunda linguistic databases)
• Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: the Lesser Sunda Islands

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