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.
The generally accepted defined Flores–Lembata languages are:[1] In addition, the following is often grouped either as a dialect of Lamaholot or its own language: Lamaholot is a dialect chain.
Ethnologue treats ten varieties as distinct languages.
Elias (2017) proposes the following internal classification of Flores-Lembata.