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1 online resource (viii, 471 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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text file PDF 62.9MB |
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Asia-Pacific Linguistics |
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Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
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| Summary |
This is a trilingual dictionary of Vurės, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vurės is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vurės, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vurės and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vurės community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vurės words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English-Vurės and Bislama-Vurės finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vurės words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community. |
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National edeposit: Available online Unrestricted online access. star AU-CaNED |
| Subject |
Bislama language -- Dictionaries -- Vurės.
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English language -- Dictionaries -- Vurės.
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Vurės language -- Dictionaries -- Bislama.
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Vurės language -- Dictionaries -- English.
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Vanuatu -- Languages.
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Vanuatu -- Langues.
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Language and languages
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Vanuatu https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvhrQ8PGtxP9VWJFKth73
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
A dictionary of Vurės, Vanuatu / (DLC) 2020415411 |
| ISBN |
9781760464615 (PDF) |
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1760464619 (PDF) |
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9781760464608 (paperback) |
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1760464600 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
AUNED 000069950450 |
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AU@ 000070278624 |
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