A Tahitian and English dictionary, with introductory remarks on the Polynesian language, and a short grammar of the Tahitian dialect: with an appendix containing a list of foreign words used in the Tahitian Bible, in commerce, etc., with the sources from whence they have been derived

University Of California Libraries, H. J. (Herbert John) Davies, London Missionary Society

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,./'^^'^J^McC:>e\UNIVERSITYIOF Z51>^INTRODUCTORY REMARKSON THEPOLYNESIAN LANGUAGE.inbabitan's of most of tbe nnmeroiis Islands ofTHEibe called by modern Geographers bySoutb Sea,the general name of Polynesia, have one conimon Lan-guage, which for that reason may be called the Poli/ne-Stan it prevails also over acons^iderable \ydvt oiAustra-;lasia, the langua-yet it has apparently no affinity withges or dialects of the major part of the Australasians.The Polynesian, whether it may be considered as aprimitive sister of the Ma-or mother tongue itself, or alay, derived from one common parent, is undoubtedly ofgreat antiquity, the people that speak it being, it is pro-bable, separated for ages from the restof the woild, liav-ing no intercourse with other and thinking tillany nation,lately, that they themselves were th^ only people in ex-istence.And while, Language of a rude and uncivilizedas thedeficiencies,people, it has, as might be expected, manyj)ulishedwhen compared with the highly cultivated andlanguag'es of ...

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• Publié par: titav
• Nombre de lectures: 14
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 26 Mo

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