Series TET - Timor Region - East Timor (formerly Portuguese Timor)
Oceanic ethnography and East Timorese Nan


Date Range1918 - July 1972?, last record is after July 1972
Quantity0.65 cm, 6 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from East Timor (formerly Portuguese Timor), concentrating on Oceanic ethnography and the local language of Nan. It includes printed articles of local texts and their English translations, a typed and annotated comparative study of some East Timorese languages by Capell, and handwritten and typed comparative vocabulary lists (some by Capell).

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (also known as East Timor or Timor Lorosae and formerly known as Portuguese Timor) is an Australasian country which recently acquired statehood, located geographically in Oceania, although it is sometimes assigned to Asia instead (see Line dividing Asia and Oceania).

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor

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07  Timor - Regions and Languages


Inventory Listing

AC2-TETH101 Migrations of Timorese groups and the question of the Kabe Metan or overseas black foreigners.
Timor, Oceanic ethnography: population studies, Portugese Timor.
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Typescript. By P. Middelkoop. Reprint from Int Archives of Ethnography, LI: 49-142. Contains traditional Timorese texts and their translations. A complimentary copy to Capell from the authors.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETH101
Date range 1968    Quantity 0.47 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier TETH101 Series TET
AC2-TETNAN101 Untitled draft text of a comparative study of some East Timor languages/dialects.
East Timorese Nan, comparative studies, Timor Island, East Timor.
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Manuscript/typescript (with annotations). By Capell. He discusses the application of materials described in the following folio and their sources. An English-Lovaia-Fataluka-Makasai. Masareti vocabulary is attached. Dates from 1970s (written of on recycled material of that period.)

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETNAN101
Date range After July 1972    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier ETNAN101 Series TET
AC2-TETNAN102 Vocabulario e frazes na lingua de Atauro, Timor Portuges.
East Timorese Nan, comparative studies, Timor Island, East Timor.
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Typescript. By Antonio Leite de Magalhaes. From Boletin da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisbôa. Transcribed by Capell. Vocabulary is in Portugese , England (sic) and one or both dialects of Atauro (Hakak or Baba). Augmented by a short additional list is in Capell's hand. In folio I above, Capell notes that his transcription of this article is its first in English. He uses these AN languages as a "useful check against the other two languages".

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETNAN102
Date range 1918    Quantity 0.08 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier ETNAN102 Series TET
AC2-TETNAN103 Lovaia, Epulo - about 200 people in the district of Lauten (Dagadá speaking people.)
East Timorese Nan, comparative studies, Timor Island, East Timor.
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Manuscript. Transcription of a Portugese-Lovaia (Epulo) vocabulary by Manuel Perreira. Originally published in Terra, Ano III, No 6, and was transcribed by Dr Ruy Cinatti of Oporto, Portugal (see comment in folio 1).

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETNAN103
Date range original was in Nov-Dec 1951    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier ETNAN103 Series TET
AC2-TETNAN104 English-Lovaia-Fataluk-Makasai. Compiled by Capell.
East Timorese Nan, comparative studies, Timor Island, East Timor.
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Manuscript. Compiled by Capell.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETNAN104
Date range ca 1972    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier ETNAN104 Series TET
AC2-TETNAN105 English-Lovaia (Lantem) vocabulary.
East Timorese Nan, comparative studies, Timor Island, East Timor.
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Manuscript. Compiled by Capell.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-TETNAN105
Date range ca 1972    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier ETNAN105 Series TET

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