Ebook: A Dictionary of Kwoma: a Papuan language of north-east New Guinea
Author: Bowden Ross.
- Genre: Linguistics // Foreign
- Tags: Языки и языкознание, Папуасские языки
- Language: Papuan-English
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Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. — xxxi + 339 p. — ISBN: 0858834413
This dictionary presents vocabulary and longer texts drawn from diverse areas of Kwoma social life such gardening, housebuilding, kinship terminologies, social organisation, warfare, marriage practices, art mythology and ritual. Kwoma words and texts are translated into Tok Pisin as well as English. The book contains a substantial body of original ethnographic data collected during twenty years of field research in the Sepik and it is also intended as a contribution to the ethnography and history of the Kwoma and several neighbouring groups in the Ambunti area of East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
This dictionary presents vocabulary and longer texts drawn from diverse areas of Kwoma social life such gardening, housebuilding, kinship terminologies, social organisation, warfare, marriage practices, art mythology and ritual. Kwoma words and texts are translated into Tok Pisin as well as English. The book contains a substantial body of original ethnographic data collected during twenty years of field research in the Sepik and it is also intended as a contribution to the ethnography and history of the Kwoma and several neighbouring groups in the Ambunti area of East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.
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