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- Title
TOP-DOWN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OF ROTE-METO.
- Authors
Edwards, Owen
- Abstract
This paper examines the historical phonology of the Rote-Meto languages through a top-down perspective. It describes the sound changes which have taken place between Proto-Malayo- Polynesian and the present-day languages. This reveals a number of shared innovations between Meto and the languages of west Rote, as well as changes shared by the other languages of Rote. Thus, a West Rote-Meto subgroup is identified, as well as a Nuclear Rote subgroup. Within Austronesian, there are phonological innovations shared between Rote-Meto and a number of languages of Timor and surrounding islands. This provides evidence for a Timor-Wetar-Babar subgroup, though this group does not include all languages of Timor.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; TIMOR language; AUSTRONESIAN languages; POLYNESIAN languages; HISTORICAL linguistics
- Publication
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1836-6821
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10524/52421