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REPOR TRESUMES ED 010 351 48 LANGUAGES OF THE WORLDINDOPACIFIC'FASCICLE THREE. BY VOEGELINg FLORENCE M. INDIANA UNIV., BLOOMINGTON REPORT NUMBER NDEAVI.437 PUB DATE DEC 64 CONTRACT OECSAE14$11 EDRS PRICEMFS0.27 HC $5.36 134P. ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS, 6(9)/1125, DEC. 1E64 DESCRIPTOKS *LANGUAGES; *INDONESIANLANGUAGES, BLOOMINGTON, INPIANAa ARCHIVES OF LANGUAGES OF THEWORLD LISTS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LANGUAGES OFMELANESIA AND POLYNESIA ARE PROVIDED. (THISREPORT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 010 350 TO ED 010 367.) (JK) If U.I DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND INELFARE Office of Education rat docueunit has been reproduced mcacity as received from the O wow or Aanganization originanng it. Points of view or opinions aiAalsd df not necessarily. represent official Office at Edfocation, O IMMOgr poll* LU Anthropological Linguistics # Volume 6 Number 9 December 1964 LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD: INDO-PACIFIC FASCICLE THREE A Publication of the AR.c}nris OF LANGUAGES or THE WORLD An:throve/14yDepart:mot Wiliam University ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS is designed primarily, butnot exclusively, for the immediate publication of data-oriented papers for which attestation is availzble inthe form of tape recordings deposit in the Archives of Languages on of the World. This doesnot imply that contributors willbe re- stricted to scholars working inthe Archives at Indiana University;in fact, one motivation publication of ANTHROPOLOGICAL for the LINGUISTICS isto increase the usefulness of theArchives to scholars ehewhere by making publishabledata and conclusion andtheir tape recorded more widely available. attestation (Recorded attestation ofpapers from scholars elsewhere will becopied by the Archives and the original recordingsreturned to the collector; othersmay then work with the tape copy either in the Archives or elsewhere by having acopy sent to them.)In additionto heavily eraemplified papers in the form of preliminaryor final star, nents on restricted pralems inphonemics, mosphophonemics, rnorphensics, syntax and comparative grammar, ANTHROPOLOGICALLINGUIS; nee will include lexicalIns and analysedtexts (especially in the otherwise hard-to-publish 20 to 100 pages) and theoretical range of and methodologicalpapers(especially in the form ofpapers from symposia). Each volume of ANTHROPOLOGIC/I.UNGUISTIC consists of nine during the months of January, numbers to be issued February, March, April, May, June,October, NoVernber and December. Sobscriptivni ($3.30 a year) and papers for publication shouldbe sent to the editor, Flrience M. irovelin, AnthropalogyDepartment, Indiana Univenity,Bloomington, Indiana. AnthropologicalLinguistics Florence M. Voegelin Editor VOLUME VI 1964 A Publication of the ARCHIVES OF LANGUAGESOF THE WORLD Anthropology Department Indiana University PRECEDING PAGE BLANK- NOT, EILMED CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI 1 David D. Thomas: TransformationalParadigms From Clause Roots. 1 S. A. Pillai: Tamil Nouns Ashok R. Kelkar and Fran NathTrisal: Kashmiri Word Phonology: First Sketch 13 Lynette Oates: Distribution ofPhonemes and Syllables in Gugu- Yalanji 23 Charles T. Scott: SyllableStructure in Teheran Persian. 27 2 Kibbey M. Horne: GraphicRepresentation of Social Isoglosses 1 R. J. Goodell: An EthnotinguisticBibliography with Supporting Material in Linguistics and Anthropology.. ........10 3 C. F. and F. M. Voegelin:Languages of the World: Sine- Tibetan Fascicle One 1 4 C..Fand F. M. Voegelin:Languages of the World: Indo- Pacific Fascicle One 1 5 C .F. and F M. Voegelin:Languages of the World: African Fascicle One. 1 C. F. and F. M.V4::egeiin:Languages of the World:Native America Fascicle- One 1 C. F. and F. M. Voegeiin:Languages of the World:Indo-Pacific 1 Fascicle Two. * 09 Lili 8 C. F. and F. M. Voegelin:Languages of the World:Ibero- Caucasian and Pidgin-Creole Fascicle One.... 1 9 C. F. and F. M. Voegelin:Languages of the World:Indo- Pacific Fascicle Three 1 iv LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD INDO-PACIFIC FASCICLE THREE C.F. and F. M. Voegelin Indiana University 3.1. Unified list of Austronesian Languages in Melanesia 3.2. Sample of sound systems in Melanesia 3.3. Bauan dialect of Fijian 3.4. Rotuman sentence profiles For authorship and sponsorship, see Languages of the World: Sino-Tibetan Fascicle One (511).The research reported hereinwas performed pursuant to a contract with the United States Office of Education,Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 2 Anthropological Linguistics,Vol. 6,No.9 3.1. Difficulties encountered in bringing order into the diversity of languages spoken in the Melanesianarea have been discussed in Indc-Pacific ftscicle One (1.1,' ). The lexicostatistic work brought together and inter- preted by Dyen (1963) pointsup the diversity in Melanesia, and supports one clear-cut classification, butone which might be expected to conflict with classifications postulatedon the basis of other kinds of evidence. Never- theless, we follow the Dyen classification at thisjuncture, as far as pos- sible. Our objective, however, is to bring together all the languagenames known for Melanesia thatare neither Papuan nor Polynesian, whileDyen restricted himself to Austronesian languages for whichhe had basic vocabulary lists.Where it is not possible to follow Dyen because Dyen does not include as many languages as we do,we superimpose the classification of others- - chiefly Capell and Gm-3e. Where Dyen does not include languages, there is of course no conflict in classifications. Where both Grace and. Dyen classify, and there is conflict in theirclassifications, we follow Dyen. awever, the resulting list of Austronesian languages whichis given here is not primarily concerned with choosingamong alternative classifications, but rather with extending a clear-cut classificationwhich includes few languages by adding to it other languages that probably fallin the same classification. We include names mentioned in the literature as summarized by Capell (1962) and Salzner (1960) with therealization that for some areas the proliferation of names may not even represent dialect differences. Certain languages are notedas being ungroupoi', and this refers to Dyenis use of the term ina special sense, according to which shared basic vocabulary of the language in question isinsufficient to establish a sub - relationship with any other Austronesian language in the given area under Indo-Pacific Fascicle Three discussion. We do not include in the list of languagesof Melanesia the languages of West New Guinea (West Irian: formerlyNetherlands New Guinea) becfmse lan- guages 'grouped' by Dyen in this area do not show their closest relationship with languages within Malanesia, and,because none of these languages are included in Grace's Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.These West New Guinea languages will appear in Inao-71acific fasciclesconcerned_ with Indonesia. The order of listing thatwe follow is oriented from west to east slanting from north to south, in general;in each particular area, however, the order of listing begins with the languageswhose classification is sup- ported by Dyen's lexicostatistics. Dyen's comparisons did not includeany word lists from the Admiralty Islands, north of Australian New Guinea,on which virtually no linguistic information has been published.Grace (1955) classifies the languages of the Admiralty Islands and the WesternIslands (Ninigo, etc.)lexceptAuaand WuvUlu)together as a subgroup of his 'EawbernMalayo-Polynesian' distinct from the subgroup consisting of Aua andWuvulu.The only available detailed clas- sification of the languages of the Admiralties is that prepared by.W.E. Smythe, Government Medical Officerat Manus for several years before 1949, citedbyCapell (1962).This classification is reproduced below, modified by the elimination of double classificationof certain names. Smythe's statement that "here were 23 languages spokenon Manus would seem to imply that he regarded the names grovel under eachof his 21 'types' on Manus to be dialects of the same languagei.e. his 'type' equals'language'. The difficulty of ( Obtaining figures for the number of speakersof each language is magnified by the tact (supplied also by Smythe) thatexcept on the islands of Aua (popula- 4 Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 6,No.9 tion 230 in 1938). and Wuvulu (populat4^n251 in 1938) and the Ninigos (pop- ulation 261 in 1938) and in a dozen or so villageson the southeast coast of Mums with scattered settlementson other islands, a large part of the popu- lation now speaks Neo-Melanesian exclusivtly,and the tendency to replace the native languages with Neo-Melanesianis increasing. The total population of the Admiralties was 13,226 in 1951. Group I Aua and Wtwulu Group II Ninigo Islands and the now extinct AnchoriteIslands Group III Manus with its adjacent islands, and the HermitIslands Sub-group I of Group III Family(i) Type a. Sori, Harengan b. Luf, Marun a. Hus b. Anima c. Ponam d. Nyada, Alokuk, Buboi$ Lesau (thesefour may belong rather with 2 (ii) c) a. Baluan, Pam, Lou b. Rambutjo, Nauna a. Buyang, Kawaliap, Tingou, Lowa, Liap b. Waimdra, Badlok, Munduburew, Pundru c. Mhndrau, Saul Khp, Derambat d. Tawi (the form spokenon Manus - Island Tawi is 2 (i) c), Ndramndraul Ndrabito, Hatwara,Uldrau, Nhrawyrei, Loitja (v) a. Tongo, Sabon, Lundret, Warabei, NdranulYiringo Ind° Pacific Fascicle Three 5 b. Ndrostutp Issues, "firiv, Napo, Sira,Sonilup Bulihan, Katins Baas k Sub-group 2 of Growr.g. Family (i) Type a. Mokareng, Papitalai, :Lvdranggot, Latehan,Bowat, Loniu b. Bipi, Kali, Sapondralisp Bwidrahai,Gogo, Kabuli, Salien c. Mok, Patusi, Mbunaip Bamsau,Xbuge,