Author: James Drummond AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Short Vocabulary of the Aka Language
Author: James Drummond AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatani language
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Vocabulary of the Mangaian Language
Author: Frederick William ChristianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mangaian language
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Journal of the Polynesian Society
Author: Polynesian Society (N.Z.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Vols. for 1892-1941 contain the transactions and proceedings of the society.
Grammatical Outline and Vocabulary of the Oji-language, with Especial Reference to the Akwapim-dialect
Author: Hans Nicolaus RiisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, Twi
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language
Author: A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language, Etc
Author: Yoruba LanguageThe Last Speakers
Author: K. David HarrisonPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426206682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, graphics, interviews, traditional wisdom never before translated into English, and first-person essays that thrillingly convey the adventure of science and exploration.
Linguistic Survey of India
Author: A Grammar of Akabea
Author: Raoul ZamponiPublisher:
ISBN: 0198855796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Akabea is one of the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands, and is also the name of the people who spoke it. The Akabea lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years until the second half of the nineteenth century, when the British developed a penal colony on the Andaman Islands. This led to the introduction of diseases to which the indigenous inhabitants had no natural immunity and caused a demographic collapse; the last member of the Akabea tribe died some time between the 1921 and 1931 censures. There are two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands, Great Andamanese (to which Akabea belongs) and Ongan. The former is now represented by only a handful of people who remember North Andamanese, the variety geographically most removed from Akabea and from the centre of British settlement, while the latter, whose speaker resisted contact with outsiders, still survives in small but vital speech communities. Akabea was, however, documented quite extensively by two British government employees in the second half of the nineteenth century and is in fact the best documented of the traditional Great Andamanese language. This documentation has gone largely unused until now, and the present grammar is the first attempt to make use of this material to present to a broader public the structure of the language, which includes features that are rare among the languages of the world. The Andaman Islands lie on one of the early migration routes of anatomically modern humans into South-East Asia and beyond, and their indigenous inhabitants have attracted the attention of anthropologists, archaeologists, and more recently geneticists. We hope that this grammar of Akabea will integrate linguistics into this multi-disciplinary investigation. Book jacket.