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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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Keywords
- austronesian
- Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries
- Dictionaries
- Historical & comparative linguistics
- Historical Reconstruction
- Language
- Language: history & general works
- Language: reference & general
- Linguistics
- Meto
- Rote
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- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBD Dictionaries::CBDX Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBG Usage and grammar guides
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBX Language: history and general works
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
- timor
- Usage & grammar guides
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DOI: 10.22459/RMCD.2021Editions