Languages of Aneityum


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Anejom

Island name: Aneityum
Proto-language: PSV
Ross Clark (1985) local group / Tryon (1976) sub-group: Aneityum
Other names: Anaiteum, Aneityumese, Anejom
Reading:
Codrington, R.H. 1885. The Melanesian languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p.477.
Gabelentz, H.C. von der 1861. Die melanesischen Sprachen nach ihrem grammatischen Bau und ihrer Verwandschaft unter sich und mit den Malaiisch-Polynesischen Sprachen. Abhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse 3:65-124.
Hewitt, Helen-Jo Jakusz 1966. Aneityum of the Southern New Hebrides: Anejom segmental phonology and word list - a preliminary report. Te Reo 9:1-43 * A detailed discussion of the phonology of Anejom, and a list of about 1500 Anejom lexical items (no English index).
Inglis, J. 1882. A dictionary of the Aneityumese language. London: Williams & Norgate * One of the earliest publications on any Vanuatu language, this is a remarkable piece of work in its way.
Lawrie, Rev. J. 1892. Aneityum, New Hebrides. Report of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 4:708-717 * Includes a brief grammatical sketch ? much of it similar to the sketch in Inglis' dictionary ? marred by the fact that many occurrences of Anejo u are printed as n.
Lynch, John 1982. Anejom grammar sketch. PL, A-64:93-154 * A "composite" grammar of Anejom, based partly on a grammar sketch written by A. Capell (but never published) and partly on a brief period of fieldwork by the author.
Lynch, John 1991. A century of linguistic change in Anejom. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific linguistics: Papers on Austronesian linguistics and ethnolinguistics in honour of George W. Grace. Canberra: PL, C-117:185-195 * Describes the fairly drastic changes which have taken place in Anejom grammar and vocabulary since the publication of Inglis' dictionary and grammar sketch in 1882.
Ray, Sidney H. 1926. A comparative study of the Melanesian island languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp.137-139.