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Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1983. — 229 p. — ISBN: 0858832844 This volume is essentially an exercise in salvage linguistics. Of the four Erromangan languages for which data will be presented, two are now extinct, a third is likely to become so in the very near future, while the one viable Erromangan language has not really attracted the attention of linguists in the last half-century. I am therefore aiming to present as complete a description as possible of these historically important languages within the limits of the data available. It is my hope that the presentation of these data will stimulate further studies in the languages of the region. The major part of this volume is taken up with a grammatical description of Sie, the sole surviving viable language of Erromango, and with a presentation of Sie lexical data. These two papers are preceded by a general discussion of the Erromangan linguistic situation, and are followed by descriptions, based on very limited data, of the moribund Ura and the extinct Utaha and Sorung. The last chapter is an attempt to begin the reconstruction of the language ancestral to

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Author

Lynch John.

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780858832848

Category

language

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Comics

Updated

2026-03-25