A Pocket Guide to the Hawaiian Language (Hawaiian Edition)

Schutz, Albert J.

ISBN 10: 1597008311 / ISBN 13: 9781597008310

Published by Island Heritage Pub, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Pocket Guide to the Hawaiian Language (Hawaiian Edition)
• Publisher: Island Heritage Pub
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: Hawaiian
• ISBN 10: 1597008311
• ISBN 13: 9781597008310
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Varez, Dietrich
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.