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Polynesian Languages
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Tuvaluan
Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
The Position of the Polynesian Languages Within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Position of the Polynesian Languages Within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Language Family The tri-institutional Pacific Program supported my research for nearly four years, including more than a year of field work in Melanesia. I am extremely grateful for that support, without which this study would have been impossible. Under this Program there was a linguistic advisory committee, organized and directed by Dr. Murdock. Isidore Dyen, Floyd Lounsbury, Joseph H. Greenberg, William C. Sturtevant, Harold C. Conklin, and William Davenport participated. The committee made a material contribution to the planning of my work in addi tion to the value of the general exchange of...
