A South Efate Dictionary

A South Efate Dictionary
Author: Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011
Genre: South Efate language
ISBN: 9781921775512

A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu

A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu
Author: Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-10-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0824890515

This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation. The resulting publication offers insight into the diversity of meanings available to speakers of Nafsan, providing some 3,400 senses for Nafsan words and an English-Nafsan finderlist. In addition, the book gives an overview of the Nafsan sound system, provides a list of existing literature on the language dating back to early missionary translations, and includes maps of Efate locating nearly 200 place names. Readers will also find South Efate cultural knowledge embedded in the explanations of the Nafsan words and their usages. A welcome companion to Thieberger’s A Grammar of South Efate (2006), this book complements and significantly augments other multimedia resources made available online by the author.

A Grammar of South Efate

A Grammar of South Efate
Author: Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2006-07-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 082483061X

This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.

Reports

Reports
Author: Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1907
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: