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A Dictionary of Nafsan, South Efate, Vanuatu
M̃p̃et Nafsan ni Erakor
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Nicholas Thieberger
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Edited by:
Alexander Smith
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
This is a dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Nafsan is one of 130 distinct languages spoken in Vanuatu. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation. The resulting publication offers insight into the diversity of meanings available to speakers of Nafsan, providing some 3,400 senses for Nafsan words and an English-Nafsan finderlist. In addition, the book gives an overview of the Nafsan sound system, provides a list of existing literature on the language dating back to early missionary translations, and includes maps of Efate locating nearly 200 place names. Readers will also find South Efate cultural knowledge embedded in the explanations of the Nafsan words and their usages. A welcome companion to Thieberger’s A Grammar of South Efate (2006), this book complements and significantly augments other multimedia resources made available online by the author.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Nicholas Thieberger
Nicholas Thieberger is associate professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Map of the Location of Efate
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Introduction
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Using the Dictionary
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Abbreviations and Glossary
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Nafsan to English Dictionary
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English to Nafsan Finderlist
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eBook published on:
December 21, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780824890513
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eBook ISBN:
9780824890513
Keywords for this book
Oceanic languages; Oceanic linguistics; Nafsan language; sounds in Nafsan; Nafsan; Vanuatu
Audience(s) for this book
Intended for use in teaching second languages, for example teaching German to Spanish speakers.
