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.
Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot
See also[]
Central Flores languages
References[]
^Fricke, Hanna L. (2019). Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/80399.
^ abElias, Alexander. 2017. Subgrouping the Flores–Lembata languages using Historical Glottometry. 9th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL9), 21–23 June 2017, LACITO, Paris.
Further reading[]
Doyle, Matthew (2010). Internal divisions of the Flores-Lembata subgroup of Central Malayo-Polynesian (Master's thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/43446.