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the closeness of the community are very much appreciated, and they maintain the basic
structure of the original life because life is always appreciated in a synergistic climate in the
ecological principle.
The perspective of traditional community life has always been rated highly in the
writing of ‘relational closeness’ (functional-constructive) on the principle of macrocosm
and microcosm of life dynamics. The basic principle of doublets or the speaking in pairs
pattern (Fox, 1988) has always been a ‘starting point’ for researchers in the field of
linguistics in Melanesia region (especially for those speaking Austronesian language) for
inspiration on the variant and language variants of the people. Thus, the construction of
thought prevalent in Timor has been revealed in the same pattern and formula although it
might have been elaborated with a substantially variety of different terms. For example,
the terms feto // mone (sisters // brothers, siblings) are commonly known. This expression
is a term of ‘the dynamics of social life’ in the paradigm of language, which is focused on
understanding the power of human intellect to describe the relationship between personal
kinship with each other in a bond of togetherness. More universally, the same term is used
metaphysically to study all closeness construction and its symbiotic influence within the
framework of all living things on earth and the afterlife.
So far there has been a connection between all beings, whether merely functional-
constructive, or even more in the symbiotic constitutive rankings, hence the term and
the pattern of ‘pairs’ or ‘lexical doublets’ is used to describe the dynamics of life that
exists in it. The picture of cultured human beings in the frame of local wisdom which is
very rich in the natural thinking of traditional societies can never be separated from oral
traditions. In addition to the terms feto // mone, other classical ‘to speak in pairs’ patterns
are also known such as: luar // dalam (in // out), kuat // lemah (strong // weak), atas // bawah
(up // down), and so forth that are phenomena in Melanesian society. In the frame of
anthropological linguistics, the ‘to speak in pairs’ pattern, which in addition to functioning
as a ‘strategy and style of speaking’ of Proto-Austronesia language family in general,
is also a literary phenomenon that is typically used for elaborating the community’s
understanding of cultural treasures in the history of human life. This is one of the basic
principles of a combination of human life and the environment, which is directly focused
on complementarity characteristics among all beings.
The traditional Melanesian population is derived from the term Malayo-Polynesian
generally, and specifically Timor has a rich constructive culture to describe the dynamics of

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