Resources

Ressources 

Some Open-Access Resources on Languages of Oceania

Quelques ressources en libre accès sur les langues d'Océanie

The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society (Ross, Pawley and Osmond)

6 volumes in PDF

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908


The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database - an online database containing lists of ~210 lexical items for various languages of the Pacific region, predominantly Austronesian.

https://abvd.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/


Online dictionaries of several languages of Oceania, both Papuan (Kalamang, Nen, Wersing) and Austronesian (Dakaaka, Teanu, Teop):

https://dictionaria.clld.org/

 

Online Tahitian dictionary, with links to Pollex giving Oceanic etymologies and to Tahitian language concordance:

https://www.farevanaa.pf/dictionnaire.php

 

POLLEX Online, a large-scale comparative dictionary of Polynesian languages (search bu languages, reconstructions, and reflexes)

https://pollex.eva.mpg.de/


Grammars of several Papuan languages, including Pondi (Barlow 2020), Alor-Pantar languages (Klamer 2014), Yélî-Dnye (Levinson 2022) accessible through

https://library.oapen.org/

 

Grammars of many languages, including some Papuan (Komnzo; Döhler 2018), Information Structure in Austronesian (Riesberg, Shiohara & Utsumi 2018), Papuan Malay (Kluge 2017)

https://langsci-press.org/catalogSearch

 

Asia-Pacific Linguistics: scholarly research, text collections and language materials for local communities (free PDFs) (e.g. Child-Directed Speech in Qaqet, A Grammar of Nese, Rote-Meo Comparative Dictionary, A Dictionary of Vurës, etc.)

https://press.anu.edu.au/authors/submit-book/editorial-boards/asia-pacific-linguistics


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