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Oceanic languages

Here are entered works dealing collectively with the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian languages.

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• Austronesian languages
• Oceania -- Languages

• Proto-Oceanic language

• Oceanic Languages -- Madurese
• Oceanic Languages -- Tonga
• Oceanic Languages -- Uvea
• Oceanic languages -- Congresses
• Oceanic languages -- Foreign words and phrases
• Oceanic languages -- Futuna
• Oceanic languages -- Gilbertese
• Oceanic languages -- Grammaticalization
• Oceanic languages -- History
• Oceanic languages -- Influence on foreign languages
• Oceanic languages -- Javanese
• Oceanic languages -- Keapara
• Oceanic languages -- Kusaie
• Oceanic languages -- Locative constructions
• Oceanic languages -- Malagasy
• Oceanic languages -- Malay
• Oceanic languages -- Marquesas
• Oceanic languages -- Marshall Is
• Oceanic languages -- Marshall Islands
• Oceanic languages -- Mortlock
• Oceanic languages -- Mota
• Oceanic languages -- Mukawa, British New Guinea
• Oceanic languages -- Nauru
• Oceanic languages -- Nufor
• Oceanic languages -- Ponape
• Oceanic languages -- Tahitian
• Oceanic languages -- Verb
• Oceanic languages -- Wedau
• Melanesian languages
• Micronesian languages
• Polynesian languages

• Eastern Austronesian languages

• Die Mon-Khmer-Völker; ein Bindeglied Zwischen Völkern Zentralasiens und Austronesiens (F. Vieweg und sohn, 1906), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004), by Gunter Senft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tape : a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu) (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2006), by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naman : a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2006), by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nese : a diminishing speech variety of northwest Malakula (Vanuatu) (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2006), by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Avava language of central Malakula (Vanuatu) (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2006), by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grammar of Neve'ei, Vanuatu (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2007), by Jill Musgrave and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oceania, linguistic and anthropological (M.L. Hutchinson ;, 1889), by D. Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair ... (Aus der kaiserlichköniglichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, in Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn, 1861), by Novara (Austrian frigate) and Karl Scherzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archiv fu r das Studium deutscher Kolonialsprachen. (G. Reimer, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Polynesian languages in Melanesia., by Sidney Herbert Ray and Austria) Mkhitʻarean Tparan (Vienna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hymns, catechisms, prayers, &c. for the use of the Wesleyan societies in the Friendly Islands. (J. Nichols, 1861), by John Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oceanic studies : proceedings of the First International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996), by Fa'afo Pat, John Lynch, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• SICOL : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1998), by Fiji) International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (2nd : 1995 : Suva, France Mugler, Jan Tent, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Borrowing : a Pacific perspective (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004), by Paul A. Geraghty, Jan Tent, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the preposition : grammaticalisation of locatives in oceanic languages (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1992), by John Bowden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comparative lexical study of north and central Vanuatu languages (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2009), by Ross Clark and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Borrowing : a Pacific perspective (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004), by Paul A. Geraghty, Jan Tent, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abiåså; een Javaansch tooneelstuk (Wajang) Mit een Hollandsche vertaling en toelichtende Nota. (M.Nijhoff, 1878), by H. C. Humme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volledige Leercursus in Brieven, om zonder onderwijzer uitsluitend door eigen oefening gemakkelijk en spoedig De Javaansche Taal te leeren lezen, schrijven, verstaan en spreken; voornamelijk ten dienste van hen, welke die taal practisch willen leeren gebruiken. (W.J. Thieme, 1890), by A. A. Focker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the preposition : grammaticalisation of locatives in oceanic languages (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1992), by John Bowden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vocabulaire de Madagascar. (n.p., 1802), by Alexis Rochon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Traveller's Malay pronouncing hand-book, for the use of travellers and newcomers to Singapore. (Fraser & Neave, Ltd., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English sentences with equivalents in colloquial malay (T. Murby, 1887), by R. W. Hullett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kelly & Walsh's Handbook of the Malay language for the use of tourists and residents. (Kelly & Walsh, limited, 1906), by Kelly & Walsh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New Testament: ak Kalimur Ekãl an ar Iroij im Dri Lomor Jisõs Kraist. (Amer. Bible Soc., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)

• O Gagagapalag mora Sala. (Soc. for Prom. Chr. Knowledge, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oat eoniñ oa katechismus n Bibel. (Mission-mimeograph, 1905), by Philip A. Delaporte (page images at HathiTrust)

• A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic (Pacific Linguistics in association with the Centre for Research on Language Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2003), by Bethwyn Evans, Australian National University. Centre for Research on Language Change, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• A comparative study of the Melanesian Island languages (The University press : [Melbourne] Pub. for the University of Melbourne in association with the Melbourne university press, 1926), by Sidney Herbert Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Melanesian languages (Clarendon press, 1885), by R. H. Codrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1988), by Malcolm Ross and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polynesian wanderings; tracks of the migration deduced from an examination of the proto-Samoan content of Efaté and other languages of Melanesia. (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1911), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary and grammar of the language of Saʻa and Ulawa, Solomon islands (Carnegie institution of Washington, 1918), by Walter G. Ivens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliche ergebnisse einer amtlichen Forschungsreise nach dem Bismarck-Archipel im Jahre 1908 ... (E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1910), by Georg Friederici, C. Lauterbach, and Karl Sapper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in Melanesian linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2001), by D. T. Tryon, Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, and Thomas Edward Dutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparative study of the Melanesian Island languages (The University Press;, 1926), by Sidney Herbert Ray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of the language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks Islands. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896), by R. H. Codrington and John Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Kenntnis der melanesischen Sprache von der Insel Tumleo, von Leonhard Schultze. (G.Fischer, 1911), by Leonhard Sigmund Schultze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polynesian wanderings; tracks of the migration deduced from an examination of the proto-Samoan content of Efaté and other languages of Melanesia (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1911), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Melanesischen Sprachen nach ihrem grammatischen Bau und ihrer Verwandtschaft unter sich und mit den Malaiisch-Polynesischen Sprachen Untersucht. (S. Hirzel, 1861), by Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die melanesischen Sprachen. 2. Abhandlung. (S. Hirzel, 1874), by Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Kenntniss der melanesischen, mikronesischen und papuanischen Sprachen, ein erster Nachrrag zu Hans Conon's von der Gabelentz Werke "Die melanesischen Sprachen," (S. Hirzel, 1882), by Georg von der Gabelentz and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Melanesischen Sprachen nach ihrem grammatischen Bau und ihrer Verwandtschaft unter sich : und mit den Malaiisch-Polynesichen Sprachen (S. Hirzel, 1860), by Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Polynesian languages in Melanesia., by Sidney Herbert Ray and Austria) Mkhitʻarean Tparan (Vienna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die melanesischen sprachen nach ihrem grammatischen bau und ihrer verwandtschaft unter sich, und mit den malaiisch-polynesischen sprachen ([Leipzig, 1860), by Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beiträge zur Kenntniss der melanesischen, mikronesischen und papuanischen Sprachen, ein erster Nachrrag zu Hans Conon's von der Gabelentz Werke "Die melanesischen Sprachen," (S. Hirzel, 1882), by Georg von der Gabelentz and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pronomina personalia und possessiva der Sprachen Mikronesiens (Metzler, 1908), by A. Thalheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Caroline Islands script ([Washington] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [1960?], 1960), by Saul H. Riesenberg and Shigeru Kaneshiro (page images at HathiTrust)

• An account of the Polynesian race; its origins and migrations and the ancient history of the Hawaiian people to the times of Kamehameha I (Trübner & co., 1878), by Abraham Fornander and John F. G. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A naturalist among the head-hunters. Being an account of three visits to the Solomon Islands in the years 1886, 1887, and 1888. (E.A. Patherick & co., 1890), by Charles Morris Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Topics in Polynesian language and culture history (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2000), by Jeffrey C. Marck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easter Island ; the Rapanui speech and the peopling of southeast Polynesia (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1912), by William Churchill and Hippolyte Roussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to "The Polynesian race" by Abraham Fornander (Bishop Museum Press, 1909), by John F. G. Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A naturalist among the head-hunters. Being an account of three visits to the Solomon Islands in the years 1886, 1887, and 1888. (G. Philip & son, 1890), by Charles Morris Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weather words of Polynesia (The New era printing company, 1907), by William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A naturalist among the head-hunters. Being an account of three visits to the Solomon islands in the years 1886, 1887, and 1888. (Longmans, 1890), by Charles Morris Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The languages of the Pacific (Bishop museum press, 1920), by J. Macmillan Brown, Bishop Museum Press, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, and Hawaiian Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

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