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- Title
The Papuan Language of Tambora.
- Authors
Donohue, Mark
- Abstract
I present data from Tambora, a now extinct language of central Sumbawa, and argue from the lexical data and the inferred phonology, compared with areal norms, that it was a Papuan language spoken by a trading population of southern Indonesia. The existence into historical times of a large and non-reclusive Papuan political entity this far west forces a major revision of our ideas about the linguistic macrohistory of Eastern Indonesia.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages; HISTORICAL linguistics; ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics; PAPUAN languages; PHONETICS
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2007, Vol 46, Issue 2, p520
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.2008.0014