Appendices to: The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: unravelling their prehistory and classification

<p> The files in this data set are the appendices from Grimes and Edwards' 2026 book "The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: unravelling their prehistory and classification", published by Language Science Press. Appendices A and B are identical to those in the book (without footnote), while appendices C and D differ slightly, as explained in the readme </p>

<p> Appendix A lists the languages that appear in the book, along with the sources of data for each language. It also lists the ISO 639-3 code, Glottocode (Hammarström et al. 2023), and geographical coordinates for each language. For languages in our target region, this list is comprehensive (based on current knowledge), though it does not systematically list every variety of each language where these are known to be dialects in the linguistic sense. For a small number of languages in our target region, no data is presented in this book – usually because no data is available. These languages are listed, but no source is given. </p>

<p> Appendix B presents data for the word ‘banana’ from 391 languages/varieties. This tally includes 329 Austronesian languages and 62 Papuan languages. 192 of the Austronesian languages are within our target region. </p>

<p> Appendix C presents the full data available to us relating to marsupial terms in Austronesian languages of Sulawesi and Linguistic Wallacea, including parts of Indonesian west Papua. It provides fuller data than the discussion in chapter 14 of the book. Different variations of **kVndoR(a) ‘cuscus’ (§14.3), and **mantəR ‘cuscus’ (§14.4) and formally close words are found in different Wallacean subgroups, and also in Papuan languages. 502 terms for marsupials (and similar mammals) are presented from 288 languages/varieties, of which 231 are Austronesian, and 57 are Papuan. </p>

<p> Appendix D is a 494-item word list designed to help collect data useful for comparative purposes for languages of eastern Indonesian and Timor-Leste. There is a printable PDF version of the wordlist for use in the field, as well as a tab-separated spreadsheet version for electronic entry of the data. </p>