Toponyms as a Gateway to Society
An Abui Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22240247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shaun Tyan Gin Lim (0000-0002-3182-8404, Independent Researcher, Singapore, [email protected]), Shaun Lim Tyan Gin (Nanyang Technological University), Francesco Perono Cacciafoco (0000-0002-0977-063X, Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Old World Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2667-0755 • E-ISSN: 2667-0755 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/26670755-01010008 |
| OpenAlex | W3209381655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
Abui is a Papuan language spoken in Alor Island, South-East Indonesia. Although there are rich studies on the Abui language and its structure, research on Abui toponymy, which aids the understanding of language, culture, and society, deserves greater attention. This paper analyzes features of Abui society through Abui toponyms collected using Field Linguistics and Language Documentation methods. It finds that, because place names communicate valuable information on peoples and territories, Abui toponyms reflect the agrarian lifestyle of Abui speakers and, more broadly, the close relationship that the people have with their landscape. Furthermore, Abui toponyms express positive traits in the Abui culture like kinship ties and bravery. Notwithstanding, like other pre-literate and indigenous societies, oral stories are commonly used to explain how places are named. This paper augments the existing Abui toponymic studies on the connection between names and the places they name and provides a deeper understanding of the Abui language, culture, and society
Agrarian society · Archaeology · Documentation · Geography · Indigenous · Kinship · Linguistics · Onomastics · Sociology · Toponymy · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
Toponyms as a Gateway to Society
Engaging Anthropological Theory
The Role of Animacy in Teiwa and Abui (Papuan)
Then and Now
Mapping the past
Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions
Approaches to Research in Toponymy
The transition from KwaMudzviti to the town of Mupandawana
Island Placenaming and Insular Toponymies
State-of-the-art in the documentation of the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, Pantar, and Kisar; A bibliography
Historical Linguistics
Indigenous Wholistic Theory
Up, down, and across the land
Reduplication in Abui
Differential argument realization in Abui
Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
Language and Place-knowledge on Norfolk Island
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |