Download or read book The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1 written by Antoinette Schapper and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group of related "Papuan outliers," which until recently were largely undocumented. This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the unique and diverse grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages.