Amarasi
Background
Amarasi (ISO: aaz) is a Timoric language spoken in the Kupang Regency of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia. A member of the (Uab) Meto dialect/language continuum, Amarasi is closely related to the nearby languages of Rote Island. Since 2019, I've been working with local community members to document and study Amarasi as well as other Meto varieties such as Amanuban and Miomafo. Feel free to get in touch if you're interested in working together!
Resources
Here is a non-exhaustive list of published resources on Amarasi and Meto. Let me know if you have suggestions to add!
PARADISEC Collections
Tan. 2022. Amarasi texts and Meto elicitation recordings. Collection TLT1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/7HD0-NJ18 (with Amanuban and Miomafo recordings made in collaboration with Tyler Lemon).
Yanti. 2019. Recordings of various texts in Amarasi, a language spoken in West Amarasi, Kupang Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Collection AAZ2019 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5f3563a2b535f.
Yanti. 2019. Recordings of various texts in West Miomaffo dialect of Uab Meto, a language spoken in Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Collection AOZ2019 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5f35639a549fd.
Yanti. 2018. Recordings of various texts in Mollo dialect of Uab Meto, a language spoken in Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Collection AOZ2018 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5c9a3e87847a9.
Kirsten Culhane. 2017. Amfo'an Recordings. Collection KC1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5bd1da7f89935.
Owen Edwards. 2012. Ro'is Amarasi Recordings. Collection OE2 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Open Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/5bf6c47ce1f3b.
Owen Edwards. 2009. Edwards Thesis Recordings. Collection OE1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au [Other Access]. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/58949afab6af0.
Dictionaries, Sketch Grammars, and Translated Texts
Unit Bahasa & Budaya. 2023. The Gospel of Mark in Ro'is Amarasi. Kupang: Unit Bahasa & Budaya.
Owen Edwards. 2021. Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary. Canberra: ANU Press. http://doi.org/10.22459/RMCD.2021
Owen Edwards & Heronimus Bani. 2019. Amarasi Picture Dictionary. Kupang: Unit Bahasa & Budaya.
Unit Bahasa & Budaya. 2015. The Word of God: New Testament with Genesis in Kotos Amarasi. Kupang: Unit Bahasa & Budaya.
Unit Bahasa & Budaya. 2015. Mengenal Bahasa Amarasi [Understanding Amarasi]. Kupang: Unit Bahasa & Budaya.
Theses and Articles
Kate Mooney. To appear. Phonology Cannot Transpose: Evidence from Meto. Phonology.
Tyler Lemon. To appear. Low nominative agreement in Uab Meto. In Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Tamisha L. Tan. 2023. Voice and Valency in Amarasi: Topics in Synchronic and Diachronic Morphosyntax. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University dissertation.
Tamisha L. Tan. 2022. Two Cases of Doubled Pronouns in Amarasi. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 31(4). 551–590.
Owen Edwards 2020. Metathesis and Unmetathesis: Parallelism and Complementarity in Amarasi, Timor. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Snapshots from the field - Desa Soba, Desa Too'baun, Kelurahan Teunbaun, and Kota Kupang
Koenok taam en Soba!
Saturday morning @ Pasar Baun
Keluarga Neparasi @ Teunbaun
Tim Meto: Tyler Lemon, Yoakim Kenjam, Sarlince Bana, Nona Seko, myself, and Yefri Bilaut (L-R)
Tai Muti (traditional men's sarong)
with the Kepala Sekolah of SMK Negeri 1 Amarasi Barat (L) & Anak Raja Roby Koroh (R)
Be'i Naomi
the Kupang skyline
