Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary
Edwards, Owen
Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary - Canberra ANU Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (464 p.)
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This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relate to forms in other languages including Proto‑Malayo‑Polynesian etyma (where known) and/or out-comparisons to putative cognates in other languages of the region. The dictionary also contains two finder-lists: English to Rote-Meto, and Austronesian reconstructions with Rote-Meto reflexes. The dictionary is preceded by three introductory chapters. The first chapter contains a guide to using the dictionary as well as discussion of the data sources. The second chapter provides a short synchronic overview of the Rote-Meto langauges. The third chapter discusses the historical background of Rote-Meto. This includes sound correspondences, the internal subgrouping of the Rote-Meto family, and the position of Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian more broadly.
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RMCD.2021 9781760464578 9781760464561
10.22459/RMCD.2021 doi
Dictionaries
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries
Usage & grammar guides
Language: history & general works
linguistics
Historical & comparative linguistics
Austronesian Timor Historical Reconstruction Rote Meto
Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary - Canberra ANU Press 2021 - 1 electronic resource (464 p.)
Open Access
This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relate to forms in other languages including Proto‑Malayo‑Polynesian etyma (where known) and/or out-comparisons to putative cognates in other languages of the region. The dictionary also contains two finder-lists: English to Rote-Meto, and Austronesian reconstructions with Rote-Meto reflexes. The dictionary is preceded by three introductory chapters. The first chapter contains a guide to using the dictionary as well as discussion of the data sources. The second chapter provides a short synchronic overview of the Rote-Meto langauges. The third chapter discusses the historical background of Rote-Meto. This includes sound correspondences, the internal subgrouping of the Rote-Meto family, and the position of Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian more broadly.
Creative Commons
English
RMCD.2021 9781760464578 9781760464561
10.22459/RMCD.2021 doi
Dictionaries
Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries
Usage & grammar guides
Language: history & general works
linguistics
Historical & comparative linguistics
Austronesian Timor Historical Reconstruction Rote Meto