Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and symbols
Speech varieties listed in the dictionary
Introduction
	1.1 Purpose
	1.2 Limitations
	1.3 Data sources
		1.3.1 Rote
		1.3.2 Meto
		1.3.3 Other languages
	1.4 Transcription
		1.4.1 Jonker’s transcription
		1.4.2 Middelkoop’s transcription
	1.5 Structure of the dictionary
		1.5.1 Out-comparisons
		1.5.2 Multiple reflexes
		1.5.3 Fields/parts of entries
		1.5.4 Loan distributions
		1.5.5 Finder lists
Language background
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Rote
	2.3 Meto
	2.4 Segmental phonologies
		2.4.1 Rote
		2.4.2 Meto
	2.5 Meto morphophonemic processes
		2.5.1 Metathesis
		2.5.2 Consonant insertion
		2.5.3 Diphthongisation and vowel assimilation
	2.6 Morphology
		2.6.1 Nominal suffix -k/-ʔ
		2.6.2 Possessive morphology
		2.6.3 Reduplication
		2.6.4 Nominalisation
		2.6.5 Verb agreement
		2.6.6 Derivational verbal morphology
Historical background
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Sound correspondences
		3.2.1 Initial and medial consonants
		3.2.2 Final consonants
		3.2.3 Vowels
	3.3 Internal sub-grouping
		3.3.1 Nuclear Rote (NRote)
		3.3.2 Central East Rote and Meto (CERM)
		3.3.3 West Rote-Meto (WRM)
		3.3.4 Meto
	3.4 Levels of reconstruction
	3.5 Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian
		3.5.1 Sound changes between PMP and PRM
		3.5.2 Sound change and language shift
		3.5.3 Subgrouping within Malayo-Polynesian
Rote-Meto – English
	A - a
	B - b
	Ɓ - ɓ
	D - d
	Ɗ - ɗ
	E - e
	Ə -  ə
	F - f
	H - h
	I - i
	K - k
	Ɂ - ʔ
	L - l
	M - m
	MB - mb
	N - n
	ND - nd
	Ŋ - ŋ
	ŊG - ŋɡ
	O - o
	P - p
	R - r
	S - s
	T - t
	U - u
	W - w
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English – Rote-Meto
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian – Proto‑Rote-Meto
References