A Pocket Guide to the Hawaiian Language (Hawaiian Edition)
Albert J. Schutz
ISBN 10: 1597008311 ISBN 13: 9781597008310
Published by Island Heritage Pub, 2010
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Albert J. Schutz began studying Pacific languages in 1960, when, as a graduate student from Cornell University, he conducted a dialect survey in Fiji. This focus on Fijian, which later included heading a dictionary project and writing both a reference grammar and a tourist guide to the language, widened to include a language from Vanuatu to the west and Tongan to the south. His interest in Hawaiian, long dormant since taking a course in the language in 1962, was revived in the early 1980s. This concise, conveniently sized mini-book serves as a friendly introduction to the Hawaiian language, teaching the native alphabet, proper pronunciation, and commonly used words and phrases with wood-block illustrations. Since that time, he has written about Hawaiian's sound system and how the language has been viewed by scholars from 1778 to the present.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: A Pocket Guide to the Hawaiian Language (...
Publisher: Island Heritage Pub
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Varez, Dietrich
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 2nd Edition