Numeral words and arithmetic operations in the Alor-Pantar languages
Greville G. Corbett, Marian A.F. Klamer, Antoinette Schapper, Gary Holton, František Kratochvíl, Laura Robinson · Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey) · 2014
The indigenous numerals of the AP languages, as well as the indigenous structures for arithmetic operations are currently under pressure from Indonesian, and will inevitably be replaced with Indonesian forms and structures. This chapter presents a documentary record of the forms and patterns currently in use to express numerals and arithmetic operations in the Alor-Pantar languages. We describe the structure of cardinal, ordinal and distributive numerals, and how operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions are expressed.