Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific. (Descriptive Grammars)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781138993938
$65.45
Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. Tuvaluanpays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
- | Author: Niko Besnier
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 04, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 688 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 113899393X
- | ISBN-13: 9781138993938
- Author:
- Niko Besnier
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Aug 04, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 688 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 113899393X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138993938