Trukese-English Dictionary
Trukese-English Dictionary

Author: Ward Hunt Goodenough

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780871690142

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This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into constituent elements. The Truk Dictionary Project was supported by the Nat. Science Found. (NSF), the Dept. of Ed. of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Univ. of Penna., & the Univ. of Hawaii. Illustration.

Trukese-English Dictionary
Trukese-English Dictionary

Author: Ward Hunt Goodenough

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780871691415

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Three closely related languages are spoken in Truk State, Federated States of Micronesia: Trukese, Mortlockese, and Puluwatese. Trukese has by far the largest number of of speakers in the Truk state. Building on the dictionary by Samuel H. Elbert, published in 1947, this dictionary representes the Trukese language as it is spoken in the lagoon islands of Truk. It also includes an introduction which covers: the languages of Truk; the alphabet; the format of an entry; morphology; syntax; and bibliography. Maps and tables.