[2] The name Kambera comes from a traditional region which is close to the town of Waingapu in East Sumba Regency.
Kambera formerly had /s/, but a sound change occurring around the turn of the 20th century replaced all occurrences of former /s/ with /h/.
'[4]The word pa in Kambera is derivational and can be added to few prepositional nouns, numerals and negators to create verbs.
Negators are also included in relative clauses, but are not a part of the noun phrase.
Kambera, as a head-marking language, has rich morpho-syntactic marking on its predicators.
The pronominal, aspectual, and/or mood clitics together with the predicate constitute the nuclear clause.
Definite verbal arguments are crossreferenced on the predicate for person, number, and case (Nominative (N), Genitive (G), Dative (D), Accusative (A)).
'The items in the table below mark person and number of the subject when the clause has continuative aspect.
Pronominal clitics are a morphological way of expressing relationships between syntactic constituents such as a noun and its possessor.
The first is when the embedded verb is derived from a relational noun such as mother or child.
These derived transitive verbs express relations between the subject and the object (5).
NaARTanakedachild[na[ARTma-RmS-inamother-nya]-3SG.DAT]Na anakeda [na ma- ina -nya]ART child [ART RmS- mother -3SG.DAT]'the child whose mother she is'/'the child she is the mother of'The second clause type is where the possessor is the head of the ma- relative clause and the possessee is the subject of the embedded verb (6).
NaARTtaupersonnaARTma-RmS-ningubeihicontentwokagarden.ng.ng N.B: the morpheme .ng marks the edge of incorporationNa tau na ma- ningu ihi woka .ngART person ART RmS- be content garden .ng'the person that has crops' (lit.
'the person whose garden content is')Normally, the possessor pronoun nyuna 'he/she' follows the possessed noun (8), though it can also be the head of a relativised clause (9).
NaARTma-RmS-rabihtricklekarahasidekalaileft-na-3SG.GENNa ma- rabih karaha kalai -naART RmS- trickle side left -3SG.GEN'The (one) whose left side trickles (i.e. lets water through)' (mythological character that is the source of rain)