Flores–Lembata languages

The Flores–Lembata languages are a group of related Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Lesser Sundas, on eastern Flores and small islands immediately east of Flores, Indonesia. They are suspected of having a non-Austronesian substratum, with extreme morphological simplification in Sika and secondarily in Alorese, but not to a greater extent than the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages in general.

Languages
The generally accepted defined Flores–Lembata languages are: In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language:
 * Kedang
 * Sika
 * Lamaholot
 * Adonara
 * Alorese

Lamaholot is a dialect chain. Ethnologue treats ten varieties as distinct languages.

Classification
Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.


 * Flores-Lembata
 * Sika-Hewa
 * Sika
 * Hewa
 * Kedang-Lamaholot
 * Kedang
 * Lamaholot
 * Central Lamaholot
 * Eastern-Western Lamaholot
 * Eastern Lamaholot
 * Alorese-Western Lamaholot
 * Alorese
 * Western Lamaholot

Linguistic areas are:
 * East Lembata: Kedan, Eastern Lamaholot
 * Sedentary Lembata: Eastern Lamaholot, Alorese, Western Lamaholot, Central Lamaholot