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By Antoinette Schapper

This quantity offers descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar on the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a bunch of similar "Papuan outliers," which until eventually lately have been mostly undocumented. This publication presents an authoritative and accomplished evaluation of the original and numerous grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages.

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