Tuvaluan
Download or Read eBook Tuvaluan PDF written by Niko Besnier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Niko Besnier |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 689 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781134974719 |
| ISBN-13 | : 113497471X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Tuvaluan by : Niko Besnier
Book excerpt: 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. Tuvaluan pays particular attention to discourse and sociolinguistics factors at play in the structural organization of the language.
