Dictionary of the Kedang Language
Subtitle: Kedang-Indonesian-English
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng; ind
Number of pages: 794
ISBN-13: 9789004256361
Subjects: Indonesian language
Description: This book presents the first extensive published record of an Austronesian language on the remote Eastern Indonesian island of Lembata. A special interest of the dictionary resides in the fact that Kedang lies on the boundary line between Austronesian and Papuan languages in Eastern Indonesia. The Kedang entries are translated first into Indonesian and then into English. For ease of access, finder lists are provided in Indonesian and in English. The Introduction situates the language linguistically and sketches the phonology and morphology, as well as the 'pairing' (dyadic sets) in ritual and everyday usage of items of vocabulary characteristic of Kedang.