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Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia
- Author(s): Gary Holton
- Source: Landscape in Language , pp 143-166
- Publication Date June 2011
This chapter describes the landscape, streamscape, and seascape terminology of Western Pantar, a non-Austronesian (“Papuan”) language spoken in the Alor archipelago of eastern Indonesia. In Western Pantar reference to elevations is achieved through named places of habitation rather than through generic landform terms; water bodies are denoted according to their quality rather than their form; and seascape terms reflect a focus on intertidal foraging and minimal use of open sea resources.
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