Gilbertese Eastern Polynesian Malayo Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics
Gilbertese Eastern Polynesian Malayo Austronesian Natural Languages Linguistics
Gilbertese
Gilbertese, also known as Kiribati or Ikiribati, is an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian member of the Austronesian language family spoken by approximately 97% of the population of the Republic of Kiribati. It is also spoken in some parts of Fiji, Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
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- Brief description of Gilbertese.
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- Compiled by Trussel and Groves, based on the works of Bingham, Sabatier and Oliva.
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- Data from the first known description of Gilbertese by Horatio Emmons Hale in 1846. Includes extensive vocabulary list, orthography, phonemic inventory and grapheme distribution.
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- Vocabulary and translations into English and French collected in 1847.
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- Research paper presenting evidence for ternary metrical constituents in Gilbertese with the first known in-depth study of prosody in a Micronesian language and a constraint-based analysis of Gilbertese prosody in particular.
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- Kiribati language lessons based on the Peace Corps handbook
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