The first sustained ethnographic research into Kedang society and culture was conducted by RH Barnes between 1969 and 1971, while living in the village of Lčuwayang (Barnes 1974). In 1984 and again in 1985-1986, UB Samely conducted linguistic research in the same village. From the publication of Samely’s work (Samely 1991b) sprang the idea of providing a working vocabulary of this little known language. When it became clear that an opportunity for collaborative research had presented itself, the authors decided to pool their information on Kedang vocabulary in order to provide a rough research guide. This guide consisted in a collation of vocabulary items and translations from Barnes with similar material from Samely, presented in two columns. In 1994, Samely was able to take a print-out of this guide to Lčuwayang, where two members of the village who had previously been important sources of information for both authors annotated the vocabulary by hand. These men were A. Sio Amuntoda, by then a retired school teacher who had been one of the first teachers in the region, and M. Suda Apelabi, who had been the village head at the time of Barnes’s first research. In 1996, Samely and Amuntoda worked for several weeks on the project in Jakarta. At the invitation of the village, we returned in July 1998 to film a revived village harvest ritual (RH Barnes and Ruth Barnes 1999; RH Barnes 2005). The opportunity was taken for resolving further follow-up queries. The same was done during brief visits by RH Barnes in August 1999 and, during short breaks from field research in Witihama, Adonara, in October 2000 and March 2001. The results we now present.