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The Papuan Language of Tambora
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 46, Number 2, December 2007
- pp. 520-537
- 10.1353/ol.2008.0014
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I present data from Tambora, a now extinct language of central Sumbawa, and argue from the lexical data and the inferred phonology, compared with areal norms, that it was a Papuan language spoken by a trading population of southern Indonesia. The existence into historical times of a large and nonreclusive Papuan political entity this far west forces a major revision of our ideas about the linguistic macrohistory of Eastern Indonesia.