Talk:Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages

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Shall we combine pages "Northwest Sumatran languages" and "Batak languages"together?[edit]

These two terms seems to referring to the same content. 霎起林野间 (talk) 04:24, 23 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@霎起林野间: No, the Batak languages are only a subset of the languages referred to in this article. –Austronesier (talk) 08:23, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete name - page move[edit]

The subgroup described in this article is properly called "Barrier Islands–Batak"^[1]^[2] or "Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands".^[3]^[4] The latter was adopted in the Ethnologue and the Glottolog. "Northwest Sumatran" may be a handy short form but is AFAIK unsourced or at least not employed in the relevant sources.

I will move the page accordingly. –Austronesier (talk) 08:53, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Nothofer, Bernd (1986). "The Barrier Island Languages in the Austronesian Language Family". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. (eds.) Focal II: Papers From the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, pp. 87–109. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, No. 94, Canberra, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
^ Edwards, Owen (2015). "The Position of Enggano within Austronesian". Oceanic Linguistics 54(1): 54-109
^ Adelaar, K. Alexander, and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.
^ Ross, Malcolm (1995), "Some current issues in Austronesian linguistics", in D.T. Tryon, ed., Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, 1, 45–120. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

[Nothofer1986-1] Nothofer, Bernd (1986). "The Barrier Island Languages in the Austronesian Language Family". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. (eds.) Focal II: Papers From the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, pp. 87–109. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, No. 94, Canberra, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.

[Edwards2015-2] Edwards, Owen (2015). "The Position of Enggano within Austronesian". Oceanic Linguistics 54(1): 54-109

[3] Adelaar, K. Alexander, and Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge.

[4] Ross, Malcolm (1995), "Some current issues in Austronesian linguistics", in D.T. Tryon, ed., Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, 1, 45–120. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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