Eastern Indonesian linguistic area
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The Eastern Indonesian linguistic area is a region of eastern Indonesia where diverse Austronesian and Papuan languages share convergent structural features due to long-term contact.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Indonesian linguistic area canonical | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sprachbund
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linguistic area ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
convergent structural features
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intensive multilingualism ⓘ long-term language contact ⓘ widespread language shift and borrowing ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| hasContactType |
Austronesian–Papuan contact
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inter-Austronesian contact ⓘ inter-Papuan contact ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalProcess |
areal convergence of syntax
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diffusion of grammatical patterns across language families ⓘ lexical borrowing between Austronesian and Papuan languages ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
inter-island mobility and migration
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maritime trade networks in eastern Indonesia ⓘ regional lingua francas such as Malay varieties ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily |
Austronesian languages
NERFINISHED
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Papuan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableLanguageGroup |
Ambon and surrounding languages
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Banda Sea languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Bima-Sumba languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Central Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Flores-Lembata languages NERFINISHED ⓘ North Maluku Austronesian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor–Alor–Pantar languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStructuralFeature |
clause-final or clause-second negation patterns in many languages
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convergent phonotactic constraints in many languages ⓘ preference for analytic constructions ⓘ reduction or loss of inflectional morphology in many languages ⓘ shared alignment and case-marking patterns in some languages ⓘ shared pronominal paradigms across unrelated languages ⓘ shared word order tendencies ⓘ similar possessive constructions across languages ⓘ simplified verbal morphology in many languages ⓘ use of serial verb constructions in many languages ⓘ |
| includesRegion |
Alor-Pantar area
NERFINISHED
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Central Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ Halmahera area ⓘ Lesser Sunda Islands (eastern part) NERFINISHED ⓘ Maluku Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ North Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ Nusa Tenggara Timur NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Maluku NERFINISHED ⓘ Timor area ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Austronesian linguistics
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Papuan linguistics ⓘ areal linguistics ⓘ contact linguistics ⓘ |
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