This series contains material on the Austronesian language of the Flores Islands. It contains several comparative vocabulary wordlists (often from Indonesian to local languages), handwritten lists of sentences in local languages, and textual as well as grammatical notes, mostly by Capell (based on other papers).

Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flores

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