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Pacific studies — is the study of the Pacific region (Oceania) across academic disciplines such as anthropology, archeology, art, economics, geography, history, linguistics, literature, music, politics, or sociology.In the fields of anthropology and linguistics,… … Wikipedia
Comparative linguistics — Linguistics … Wikipedia
Classifier (linguistics) — A classifier, in linguistics, sometimes called a measure word, is a word or morpheme used in some languages to classify the referent of a countable noun according to its meaning. In languages that have classifiers, they are often used when the… … Wikipedia
Tone (linguistics) — Not to be confused with intonation (linguistics). Top tone ◌̋ ˥ … Wikipedia
Oceanic Linguistics — Abbreviated title (ISO) OL … Wikipedia
History of the Pacific Islands — covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.HistoriesAustraliaThe written history of Australia began when Dutch explorers first sighted the country in the 17th century. The interpretation of the history of Australia is currently a… … Wikipedia
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creole languages — ▪ linguistics Introduction vernacular languages that developed in colonial European plantation settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages. Creole languages… … Universalium
Terry Crowley (linguist) — Terry Crowley (1953 2005) was a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages as well as Bislama, the English lexified Creole recognized as a national language in Vanuatu. From 1991 till his death he was a professor at the University of Waikato in… … Wikipedia
Austronesian languages — formerly Malayo Polynesian languages Family of about 1,200 languages spoken by more than 200 million people in Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, the central and southern Pacific island groups (except most of New Guinea; see Papuan… … Universalium
