Documentation of three Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia
| Language | Klon, Abui (ISO639-3:abz), Teiwa (ISO639-3:twe) |
| Depositor | Louise Baird |
| Affiliation | University of Canberra; The Australian National University |
| Location | Indonesia |
| Collection ID | 0177 |
| Grant ID | FTG0008 |
| Funding Body | ELDP |
| Collection Status | Collection online |
| Landing Page Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2196/664559d3-203b-40df-931e-3d32158fb512 |
Summary of the collection
All of the languages in this collection are previously undescribed non-Austronesian languages spoken in the Alor archipelago in south-eastern Indonesia. Klon is spoken by approximately 5,000-6,000 people in the western part of Alor island, Abui by approximately 16,000 people in central Alor, and Teiwa by approximately 5,000 people in the eastern part of Pantar island.
The primary aim of the fieldwork was to collect more language data for Klon, Abui and Teiwa to add to the body of data collected in 2003 by the three researchers in the Linguistic Variation in Eastern Indonesia project.
The project aimed to produce short grammars of Klon and Teiwa, a full reference grammar of Abui, and trilingual dictionaries (local language – Indonesian – English) intended to be useful for the local speech communities as well as the worldwide linguistic community. An additional aim was to produce a collection of texts to be published locally for each language using both the national Indonesian language and English.
Group represented
This collection represents speakers living in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia.
Language information
On the islands of Alor and Pantar there is a very high level of bilingualism in the local variety of Malay; local languages are generally afforded low status in their speech communities and are regarded as ‘backward’ by residents in town. In addition, in many parts of the region, including the speech communities in this study, children are learning the local variety of Malay as their first language and are unable to communicate in the local languages.
Alternate names for Klon include: Kalong, Kelon, Kelong, and Kolon. Alternate names for Abui include: Barawahing, Barue, and Namatalaki. An alternate name for Teiwa is Tewa.
Acknowledgement and citation
To refer to any data from the collection, please cite as follows:
Baird, Louise. 2018. Documentation of three Endangered Non-Austronesian Languages of Alor and Pantar, Eastern Indonesia. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-B63D-8. Accessed on [insert date here].
