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Melanesian languages

Here are entered works on the Austronesian languages of Melanesia.

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• Oceania -- Languages
• Oceanic languages
• Proto-Oceanic language

• Fijian language
• Kiriwinian language
• Motu language

• The Fijian Language (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1985), by Albert J. Schütz (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Ai Vola Tabu, Sa Volai Kina na Veiyalayalati Makawa Kei na Veiylalayalati Vou (Fijian Bible, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Taravatu Matamata Iesu Keriso Ena, Ita Eda Lohiabada Bunai, Ita Ihamaurida: Motu Gadodia e Hahegeregerea (New Testament in Motu; London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1901)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Warraparna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), by Rob Amery (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf; To Which is Prefixed a Collection of Grammatical Rules, Hitherto Ascertained (Adelaide: G. Dehane, 1844), by C. W. Schürmann (PDF at Adelaide)

• Clamor Schürmann's Barngarla Grammar: A Commentary on the First Section of A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language (revised edition; Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), by Mark Clendon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf; To Which is Prefixed a Collection of Grammatical Rules, Hitherto Ascertained (Adelaide: G. Dehane, 1844), by C. W. Schürmann (PDF at Adelaide)

• Worrorra: A Language of the North-West Kimberley Coast (c2014), by Mark Clendon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Carolinian-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), ed. by Frederick H. Jackson and Jeffrey C. Marck (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Dictionary and Grammar of the Chamorro Language of the Island of Guam (1918), by Edward Ritter von Preissig
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at chamorrobible.org

• The Chamorro Language of Guam: A Grammar of the Idiom Spoken by the Inhabitants of the Marianne or Ladrones, Islands (ca.1909), by William Edwin Safford (page images at chamorrobible.org)
• Dictionary and Grammar of the Chamorro Language of the Island of Guam (1918), by Edward Ritter von Preissig
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at chamorrobible.org

• Archaeology of the Marianas Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 100; Honolulu: The Museum, 1932), by Laura Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trukese-English and English-Trukese Dictionary, With Notes on Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabularies, Phrases (Pearl Harbor, HI: U. S. Naval Military Govt., 1947), by Samuel H. Elbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kapingamarangi Lexicon (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1974), by Michael D. Lieber and Kalio H. Dikepa (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Kusaiean-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1976), by Ki-dong Yi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Rantak: ak, Jet Bwebwenato Kin Men Ko Ilo Baibel Ajiri Redrik re Maron Bok im Jela Kake (in Marshallese; Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1882)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mokilese-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by Sheldon P. Harrison and Salich Y. Albert (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Mokilese Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1976), by Sheldon P. Harrison, contrib. by Salich Y. Albert (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• Woleaian-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1976), by Ho-min Sohn and Anthony F. Tawerilmang (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Woleaian Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1975), by Ho-min Sohn, contrib. by Anthony F. Tawerilmang (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Yapese Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by John Thayer Jensen, contrib. by Leo D. Pugram, John Baptist Iou, and Raphael Defeg (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• The Journal of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)

• Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 95; Honolulu: The Museum, 1932), by Kepelino, ed. by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 (Dominion Museum monograph #7; 1924), by Herbert W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Marquesan Legends (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #69; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by E. S. Craighill Handy (1971 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Te Pito te Henua: or, Easter Island (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891), by William Judah Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Ethnology of Easter Island (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 160; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by Alfred Métraux (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Tahitian and English Dictionary, With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect (Tahiti: Printed at the London Missionary Society's Press, 1855), by John Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language, Together With Brief Reading Exercises (in English and Tahitian; 1919), by Ernest G. Rossiter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Tahitian and English Dictionary, With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect (Tahiti: Printed at the London Missionary Society's Press, 1855), by John Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Tahiti (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #48; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Teuira Henry, contrib. by J. M. Orsmond (page images in French Polynesia)

• The Cult of Kiho-Tumu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 111; Honolulu: The Museum, 1933), by J. F. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ma Djooungu-Madutu awi Boku ma Djarita (in Tabaru; Utrecht: J. van Boekhoven, 1913), contrib. by J. Fortgens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)