A short grammar of Inanwatan,
an endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia
Lourens de Vries
PL 560
This short grammar documents
the Inanwatan language, an endangered language of the Bird's
Head of West Papua (Indonesia). It deals with major patterns
of phonology, morphology and syntax of Inanwatan. It also
contains a vocabulary, extensive texts and materials from
a linguistic survey of the Inanwatan district. The introductory
chapter contains a discussion of the sociolinguistic and historical
context of the Inanwatan language. Special emphasis is given
to the field linguistic problems that arise from describing
a Papuan language in an advanced stage of generational erosion
and on the basis of data in which Malay and Malayicised vernacular
are often very hard to tell apart.
2004 ISBN 0 85883 545 2
xii + 156 pp
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