Elements of Wuvulu Grammar
James Alton Hafford
The Wuvulu language is little-known language of the Admiralty Islands.
Wuvulu Island is the western-most island in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The island is about 220 miles west of Manus Island, and about 150 miles north of Wewak. Wuvulu Island is approximately 4 miles east-west and approximately 2 miles north- south. The island of Aua is about twenty-three miles northeast of Wuvulu and is populated by people who speak a dialect o f the language spoken on Wuvulu.
The language of Wuvulu Island is an Austronesian SVO language. There are an estimated 1,200 to 1,300 speakers of Wuvulu, with approximately 1,200 speakers resident on Wuvulu and Aua.
Rok:
1999
Wydawnictwo:
University of Texas at Arlington
Język:
english
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english, 1999