AUSTRONESIAN-ENGLISH

An Erromangan (Sye) dictionary

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Language
austronesian-english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21533434 bytes)
Pages
\282
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42

Description

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2000. — xxxi + 250 p. — ISBN: 0858834928This volume represents the most complete compilation to date of vocabulary in the Erromangan (or Sye) languageof southern Vanuatu, along with an English-Erromangan finderlist. The introduction provides relevant background toenable the reader to make maximum use of information contained within dictionary entries, as well as discussingrelevant grammatical and sociolinguistic information. The dictionary also includes separate discussions of personalnames and names of places in the Erromangan language. This volume is intended as a supplement to An Erromangan(Sye) grammar by the same author, as well as Ura: a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu, which is adescription of the most closely related language.

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