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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... appendix V Notes on the Papuan Languages spoken about the Head Waters of the St. Joseph River, Central Papua By Sidney H. Ray, M.A. The grammars and vocabularies collected by the Rev. Father Egedi, the Rev. E. P. Money and Dr. W. M. Strong illustrate the languages spoken in the higher hill country extending from the district about Mount Yule to Mount Albert Edward and the Upper Vanapa River. They form three distinct groups. 1. Fuyuge, comprising the dialects of Mafulu, Kambisa, Korona and Sikube. 2. Afoa or Ambo, including Tauata. 3. Kovio, including Oru Lopiko. I. Classification. 1. Fuyuge:--The first specimen of any lanugage of the Fuyuge group was collected by the Rev. James Chalmers in 1879. This was called by him Kabana, and was printed in a collection of vocabularies in 1888.1 From a note on the original ms., the vocabulary was assumed to be the dialect of a village on Mount Victoria (called by Chalmers Mount Owen Stanley).2 But as Sir William MacGregor pointed 1 British New Guinea Vocabularies. London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 'A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea. Com-. piled by Sidney H. Ray. London, 1895. out,1 there are no villages on that mountain, hence Chalmers, in assigning a locality to the vocabulary some time after its collection, must have been mistaken. The language of Chalmers' Kabana is nearly the same as that of a vocabulary collected by Mr. A. Giulianetti at the village of Sikube in the Upper Vetapa or Vanapa valley, north of Mount Lilley. This was published in 1898.2 A few words from the village of Kambisa, in Sirima (Chirima) valley were published in the Annual Report on Britisn New Guinea for 1905-6,' and I have since been favoured by the compiler, the Rev. P. J....
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230243933
- ISBN 13 9781230243931
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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