Top-Down Historical Phonology Of Rote-Meto

Edwards, O.D.E. (2018)

Article / Letter to editor

This paper examines the historical phonology of the Rote-Meto languages through a top-down perspective. It describes the sound changes which have taken place between Proto-Malayo-Polynesian and the present-day languages. This reveals a number of shared innovations between Meto and the languages of west Rote, as well as changes shared by the other languages of Rote. Thus, a West Rote-Meto subgroup is identified, as well as a Nuclear Rote subgroup. Within Austronesian, there are phonological innovations shared between Rote-Meto and a number of languages of Timor and surrounding islands. This provides evidence for a Timor-Wetar-Babar subgroup, though this group does not include all languages of Timor.

• All authors: Edwards, O.D.E.
• Date: 2018
• Journal: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63 - 90
• Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52421