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Enggano house (Modigliani (1894)

General

Enggano island is off the southwest coast of Sumatra with a very unusual language. Although possibly Austronesian, it has many strange lexemes and highly unusual morphology. Moreover, the population, when first contacted from outside were near-foragers living in beehive-shaped houses, resembling those in the Nicobars. This page makes available a number of hard to get old Dutch source for Enggano. I would welcome any further more modern sources. The paper on the language is definitely a first version, awaiting more analysis.

Documents	Status	Access
The Enggano language and its history	Unpublished	Download
Old source materials
Boewang (1854)	Published	Download
Rosenberg (1855)	Published	Download
Straten (1855)	Published	Download
Walland 1 (1864)	Published	Download
Walland 2 (1864)	Published	Download
Anon (1870)	Published	Download
Helfrich (1891)	Published	Download
Helfrich (1893)	Published	Download
Winkler (1903)	Published	Download
Winkler (1907)	Published	Download
Nothofer (1986)	Published	Download

Engganese (Rosenberg 1855)

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