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Ngadha language
Ngadha (also known as Ngada or Ngad'a) is an Austronesian language, one of six languages spoken in the central stretch of the Indonesian island of Flores.〔(Rongga Documentation Project ), Australian National University.〕 From west to east these languages are: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio, and Palu'e. These languages form the proposed Central Flores group of the Sumba–Flores languages, according to Blust (2009).〔Robert Blust, 2009. "Is there a Bima-Sumba subgroup?" In ''Oceanic Linguistics''〕
Ngadha is the only language reported to have a retroflex implosive .〔Djawanai, Stephanus. (1977). A description of the basic phonology of Nga'da and the treatment of borrowings. ''NUSA linguistic studies in Indonesian and languages in Indonesia'', ''5'', 10-18.〕
Ngadha is "bizarre" because it has no prefixes nor suffixes at all.〔John McWhorter, ''What We Believe but Cannot Prove'', pp. 68-70 (ed. Ian McEwan) (Harper 2006).〕 This "strangely streamlined language" is thought by linguist John McWhorter to have originated when "little people" were "subjugated" into the Austronesian population.〔 McWhorter (2006) speculates this rare linguistic transformation would have occurred to the ancestor of Ngadha and the related Keo and Rongga languages.〔 Nonetheless, in basic vocabulary, such as body parts, numbers, and action verbs, Ngadha has kept 94 out of a list of 247 lexical items of the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language.
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