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Language Kinship of Wooi, Poom, Ansus, and Ambai in Yapen, Papua Nuraeni, Neni; Hendrokumoro, Hendrokumoro
Deskripsi Bahasa Vol 7 No 2 (2024): 2024 - Issue 2
Publisher : Department of Languages and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/db.v6i2.9622

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This study aims to determine the language kinship in Wooi, Poom, Ansus, and Ambai languages. Data were collected from an interview with the indigenous speakers of Wooi, Poom, Ansus, and Ambai languages. This research employed a historical-comparative linguistics approach, which is the lexicostatistics and glottochronology method. Data were in the form of 200 basic vocabularies and were calculated with lexicostatistics and glottochronology formula. These research findings indicate the 64% language kinship between Wooi and Ansus. That result is the highest percentage of language kinship between the four languages. 54% is between Wooi and Poom. 53% is between Ansus and Ambai. 49% is between Ansus and Poom. 45% is between Wooi and Ambai. And 35% is between Poom and Ambai, which is the lowest percentage of language kinship. Thus, this study proves that Wooi, Poom, and Ansus are the languages classified into a family. Wooi, Ansus, and Ambai are also the languages classified into a family. Meanwhile, Poom and Ambai are classified as stock.
Kekerabatan Bahasa Lio dan Bahasa Sikka Radjalewa, Cosmas Reynold; Hendrokumoro, Hendrokumoro; Pita, Yul Fulgensia Rusman
Deskripsi Bahasa Vol 8 No 2 (2025): 2025 - Issue 2
Publisher : Department of Languages and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/db.8723

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This article describes and identifies shared innovations, phonemic correspondences, percentage of kinship, type of language classification, and separation time of Lio and Sikka in Flores Island. This study uses a historical-comparative linguistic approach. The data used in this study are 200 basic Swadesh vocabulary in Lio and Sikka obtained through interviews with native speakers of both languages and literature research, particularly studies on Lio and Sikka. Using lexicostatistics and glottochronology techniques, this article shows that Lio and Sikka are related languages as they originated from the same language family. This is proven by 13 shared innovation glosses in Lio and Sikka and the discovery of 101 cognate glosses in Lio and Sikka consisting of 20 identical pairs, 62 phonemically correspondent pairs, 14 one-phoneme-different pairs, and 5 phonetically similar pairs. Based on lexicostatistics and glottochronology computation, the percentage of the relatedness of Lio and Sikka is 51%. These two languages are estimated to have split into distinct languages between 340-600 AD.