The Oceanic Languages: Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

D. Macdonald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484911244 ISBN 13: 9780484911245

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Oceanic Languages: Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin

This work contains a Grammar and complete Dictionary of the language of Efate, New Hebrides, which is a typical specimen of the Oceanic languages which are spoken by fifty millions, or one-thirtieth, of the human race in islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, extending over two hundred degrees of longitude.

It contains also a Comparative Grammar, and, to a sufficient extent, a Comparative Vocabulary of these languages, together with the evidence of their Arabian origin; thus adding these fifty millions to those previously known as Semitic speakers, as, one hundred years ago, the many millions (now in India were, by similar evidence, added to those previously known as Aryan (european) speakers.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0484911244
• ISBN 13: 9780484911245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370