Timor-Alor-Pantar is a family of nine languages spoken across Timor, Kisar and the Alor archipelago in southern Indonesia and East Timor, and is the westernmost surviving Papuan language family, one of only two Papuan outlier families found in eastern Nusantara. It comprises an Alor-Pantar branch, an East Timor branch containing Oirata and Makasai, and the standalone language Bunak. Its wider classification is disputed: Gary Holton and Marian Klamer treat Timor-Alor-Pantar as an independent family, while a 2022 study by Timothy Usher and Antoinette Schapper places it instead as one of three branches of a West Bomberai family within the wider Trans-New Guinea phylum.
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RegionTimor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia 1 Proto-Language StatusThe westernmost surviving Papuan language family; its wider classification is unsettled, with Holton and Klamer (2018) treating it as an independent family while Usher and Schapper (2022) place it as a third branch of the West Bomberai family within Trans-New Guinea. 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Timor-Alor-Pantar Languages
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The Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) languages are a family of languages spoken in Timor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia.
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Holton and Klamer (2018) classify Timor-Alor-Pantar as an independent language family, as they did not find convincing links with Trans-New Guinea.
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