440767
- TitleW. G. Lawes - Niue vocabulary, 1861
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- Call numberPMB 707
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--] - Type of material
- Reference code440767
- Issue CopyMicrofilm : PMB 707
- Physical Descriptionmicrofilm reel 35 mm
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Lawes (1839-1907) was the first missionary of the London Missionary Society to establish a station on Niue. He arrived on 30 August 1861 and remained there until January 1872. The vocabulary was apparently begun soon after his arrival - Scope and ContentA vocabulary of Niue words with their English equivalents in a small notebook of 362 pages. The vocabulary ends at the word mele'. The whereabouts of the succeeding part is unknown. The vocabulary does not appear to have been used by the compilers of a vocabulary and grammar of the Niue dialect of the Polynesian language by Edward Tregear and S. Percy Smith
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PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 707
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