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| LDTC Home | About Me and My Language | Bird Story | Village Income | Farming the land | Translation: Morphology | Translation: Syntax | Word List | Minimal Pairs | Dialect Map | Sound System (PDF) | Possession (PDF) | Comparatives (PDF) |
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My name is Herman Kelen, and I am an Asian Studies MA student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I am originally from the beautiful island of Flores, in eastern Indonesia. On this website I would like to briefly introduce you to my native culture and language Lamaholot. Lamaholot is spoken by 292,350 people who live in East Flores Regency and Lembata Regency, Indonesia, and it has 35 dialects. My homepage is based on Lewolaga dialect that is spoken by 15,000 people. I acknowledge the intellectual contributions of all tutors in this project and I thank them all. Special thanks I address to the Linguistics Department, especially the Language Documentation Project, here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I also want to thank the Ford Foundation and the IFP for enabling me to pursue my MA here. Thank you for exploring this website. And I hope you enjoy your visit. I appreciate your suggestions. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at hkelen@hawaii.edu.
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| Your first name | Herman |
| Your last name | Kelen |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Lamaholot |
| Alternative names | Solor, Solorese |
| Language classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Timor, Flores-Lembata |
| Geographic areas where spoken | Flores Timur Distric and Lembata Distric |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | Few. Most people understand some Indonesian |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | almost all of the people who live in villages in the Flores Timur distric and Lembata distric |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | Larantuka-Malay, Sikka, Indonesian |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? | No |
| If you answered yes to the above question, please specify | |
| Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? | No |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? |