October 15, 2025Open Access

Kui, Hamap, and Kamang Language Kinship in Alor Regency: Toward Proto-Alor-Pantar Reconstruction

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The degree of kinship between Kui and Hamap languages is 18.5%, revealing moderate similarities.
Cognate vocabulary was analyzed using 200 Swadesh basic vocabulary items to determine kinship.
Findings suggest that while geographically close, Kui, Hamap, and Kamang exhibit low degrees of linguistic kinship.
The study contributes to proto-language reconstruction efforts, aiding classification in East Nusa Tenggara.

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Comparative historical linguistic approach identifies kinship relations in Alor languages, suggesting distant ties.

Salimulloh Tegar Sanubarianto (2025) studied this question.

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