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Review essay TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY OF LAMAHOLOT (INDONESIA) John Bowden and Malcolm Ross Karl-Heinz Pampus. Koda kiwdi: dreisprachliches Worterbuch des Lamaholot (Dialekt von Lewolema). (Abhandlungen fir die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Band 52, 4). Stuttgart: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft/Franz Steiner Verlag. 1999. 646pp., map. C72.00 (paper) ISBN 3-515-07527-5. Lamaholot is a member of the putative Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) group of Austronesian languages (Blust 1993). Within CMP, it appears to be in a subgroup with the languages of Timor and Roti rather than with those of central and western Flores (Wurm and Hattori 1981-3). This work is a trilingual (Lamaholot-Indonesian-German) dictionary of the Lewolema dialect of Lamaholot, spoken in eastern Flores in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. Its publication possibly makes Lamaholot the most thoroughly documented of all the CMP languages. There is a substantial amount of anthropological research done amongst Lamaholot speakers which complements purely linguistic studies including Arndt's (1937) grammar of the Solor dialect, Fernandez's (1977) grammar of the Ile Mandiri dialect, Keraf's (1978) extensive morphological study of the Lamalera dialect and Samely's (1991) study of the closely related Kedang language. The dictionary adds to this already considerable literature. The book falls into the following parts: preface, acknowledgements, contents, guidelines for the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY OF LAMAHOLOT (INDONESIA) John Bowden and Malcolm Ross Karl-Heinz Pampus. Koda kiwdi: dreisprachliches Worterbuch des Lamaholot (Dialekt von Lewolema). (Abhandlungen fir die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Band 52, 4). Stuttgart: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft/Franz Steiner Verlag. 1999. 646pp., map. C72.00 (paper) ISBN 3-515-07527-5. Lamaholot is a member of the putative Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) group of Austronesian languages (Blust 1993). Within CMP, it appears...
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TRILINGUAL DICTIONARY OF LAMAHOLOT (INDONESIA) John Bowden and Malcolm Ross Karl-Heinz Pampus. Koda kiwdi: dreisprachliches Worterbuch des Lamaholot (Dialekt von Lewolema). (Abhandlungen fir die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Band 52, 4). Stuttgart: Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft/Franz Steiner Verlag. 1999. 646pp., map. C72.00 (paper) ISBN 3-515-07527-5. Lamaholot is a member of the putative Central Malayo-Polynesian (CMP) group of Austronesian languages (Blust 1993). Within CMP, it appears to be in a subgroup with the languages of Timor and Roti rather than with those of central and western Flores (Wurm and Hattori 1981-3). This work is a trilingual (Lamaholot-Indonesian-German) dictionary of the Lewolema dialect of Lamaholot, spoken in eastern Flores in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. Its publication possibly makes Lamaholot the most thoroughly documented of all the CMP languages. There is a substantial amount of anthropological research done amongst Lamaholot speakers which complements purely linguistic studies including Arndt's (1937) grammar of the Solor dialect, Fernandez's (1977) grammar of the Ile Mandiri dialect, Keraf's (1978) extensive morphological study of the Lamalera dialect and Samely's (1991) study of the closely related Kedang language. The dictionary adds to this already considerable literature. The book falls into the following parts: preface, acknowledgements, contents, guidelines for the

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: May 1, 2003

References

  • Bahasa Lamaholot Ile Mandiri
  • Morfologi Dialek Lamalera
  • The history and transitivity of western Austronesian voice and voice-marking