Series INALOR - Indonesia - Lesser Sunda Islands - Alor Island
Various languages and dialects.


Date Range1914 - 1974, one item is after 1973
Quantity0.69 cm, 6 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from Alor Island (in the Lesser Sunda Islands). It includes a typed article (in Dutch) of comparative vocabulary, a handwritten letter from Myron Bromley to Capell (including a brief typed comparative vocabulary list), a brief typed and annotated vocabulary list, and handwritten grammatical notes in Capell’s hand.

The Nusa Tenggara, or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands.

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Sunda_Islands
See also External site http://www.indo.com/indonesia/lesser.html

Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the chain of islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores Solor and Lomblen.

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alor

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Inventory Listing

AC2-INALOR101 Eiland Alor Woordenlijst.
Various languages and dialects, Alor Island, Indonesia, Lesser Sundas.
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Typescript, photocopy. Unkown author. Comparative vocabulary in Dutch-Alor-Koei'sch (Kui) and Kolana'sch (Kolana). Extract from an unknown Dutch journal, pp 94-102.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR101
Date range 1914    Quantity 0.05 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NALOR101 Series INALOR
AC2-INALOR102 Letter from Myron Bromley, together with an Abui vocabulary from the Matura area of Alor.
Various languages and dialects, Alor Island, Indonesia, Lesser Sundas.
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Typescript. Informant was Karel Alomau, a native speaker who 'had forgotten many words'.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR102
Date range 1974    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NALOR102 Series INALOR
AC2-INALOR103 Short untitled vocabulary list (incomplete), tabulated as Table 1.
Various languages and dialects, Alor Island, Indonesia, Lesser Sundas.
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Manuscript. "Greenberg's Alor-Timor comparative vocabulary annotated". In Capell's hand.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR103
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NALOR103 Series INALOR
AC2-INALOR104 Alor grammatical notes.
Various languages and dialects, Alor Island, Indonesia, Lesser Sundas.
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Manuscript. Contains information on affixation, morphology and syntax. Capell's hand. Some shorthand. (Originally pinned together in a Timor-related file.)

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR104
Date range no date (after 1973)    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NALOR104 Series INALOR
AC2-INALOR201 De Sociale Structur van een Aloreesche Bevolkingsgroep by Martha Nikolspeyer
Alor Island, Lesser Sunda Group, Indonesian Archipelago
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26 page text (photocopy).

De Sociale Structur van een Aloreesche Bevolkingsgroep by Martha Margaretha Nikolspeyer. Abui-Dutch wordlist only. From a thesis presented to the University of Leiden and published by V. H. Kramen (Photocopy).

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR201
Date range 01-01-1940    Quantity 0.5 cm,
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier INALOR201 Series INALOR
AC2-INALOR202 Alor wordlist and phrases
Alor Island, Lesser Sunda Group, Indonesian Archipelago
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6 page typed and written manuscript.

Alor wordlist. After Cora du Bois, Vol. II, pp. 564- 565. Transcribed by A. Capell. English - Alor words and phrases

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INALOR202
Quantity 0.1 cm, Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier INALOR202 Series INALOR

Published by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,
Listed by Peter Newton, Austehc and PARADISEC
HTML edition Nicholas Thieberger
Updated 11 October 2006
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