Kawaimina languages
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| Kawaimina | |
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| Geographic distribution | East Timor |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | kawa1289 |
Kawaimina (a
- Naueti,
spoken by one or two thousand speakers each. It is a name used by linguists discussing the languages, not the speakers themselves. The first three are spoken in adjacent areas in the western part of
refer to their language as Osomoko.Geoffrey Hull classifies these as dialects and groups them into a single Kawaimina language,[1] while Ethnologue groups the varieties into three distinct languages.[2][3][4] Some authors disagree with Hull's analysis of the Kawaimina languages as a dialect chain for both diachronic changes (internal and contact-induced innovations) and synchronic reasons (phonological and morphophonological differences, morphosyntactic simplification, variable degree of Tetun and Makasae influence).[5]
The Kawaimina languages are members of the eastern Extra-Ramelaic subgroup of
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Kairui -
Midiki -
Naueti -
References
- ^ Geoffrey Hull (2004-08-24). "The Languages of East Timor". Macquarie University. Archived from the original on 2008-07-20.
- ^ M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (2016). "Nauete". Ethnologue. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (2016). "Kairui-Midiki". Ethnologue. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (2016). "Waima'a". Ethnologue. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Veloso, Alexandre (2016). "A grammar sketch of Naueti, a language of East Timor". Leiden University. Master Thesis.
External links
- The Waimaha language of East Timor Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Ethnologue page for Kairui-Midiki
- Ethnologue page for Nauete
- Ethnologue page for Waimaha
- Survey of the languages of East Timor
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