Araki: A disappearing
language of Vanuatu
François, Alexandre
PL 522
Araki, an unwritten Austronesian
language belonging to the Oceanic subgroup, is now spoken
by less than a dozen people in a small islet of Vanuatu; it
is likely to disappear very soon. As the first ever publication
about this language, the present study covers all that it
has been possible to gather from it. The core of this book
is a grammatical description of Araki: attention has been
paid to its phonology and morphology, the inventory of syntactic
categories, the internal organisation of noun and verb phrases,
the semantics of aspect and mood, complex sentence construction,
and many other topics which illustrate the originality of
this language. A bilingual lexicon is also provided, as well
as a selection of texts.
2002 ISBN 0 85883 493 6
xxi + 353 pp
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