Descriptor
| English | 6 |
| Language Research | 6 |
| Dictionaries | 5 |
| Vocabulary | 5 |
| Uncommonly Taught Languages | 4 |
| Creoles | 3 |
| Definitions | 3 |
| Foreign Countries | 3 |
| Grammar | 3 |
| Aboriginal Australians | 2 |
| Classification | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Studies in Philippine… | 1 |
Author
| Hershberger, Henry D., Comp. | 1 |
| Hershberger, Ruth, Comp. | 1 |
| Lederer, Herbert | 1 |
| Marlett, Stephen A. | 1 |
| Moser, Mary B. | 1 |
| Riego de Rios, Maria Isabelita | 1 |
| Waters, Bruce, Comp. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reference Materials -… | 6 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Multilingual/Bilingual… | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
| Philippines | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textMoser, Mary B.; Marlett, Stephen A. – 1997
A subset of a Seri-English bilingual dictionary (in preparation) is presented that includes terms referring to people, kinship terms, and verbs closely related to them. This version includes an English-to-Seri dictionary with 61 basic terms and variants, and a Seri dictionary with both Spanish and English glosses. It uses a practical orthography…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Kinship Terminology, Language Patterns
Riego de Rios, Maria Isabelita – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1989
This dictionary is a composite of four Philippine Creole Spanish dialects: Cotabato Chabacano and variants spoken in Ternate, Cavite City, and Zamboanga City. The volume contains 6,542 main lexical entries with corresponding entries with contrasting data from the three other variants. A concluding section summarizes findings of the dialect study…
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialect Studies, Dictionaries, English
PDF pending restorationLederer, Herbert – 1975
Recent advances in the field of descriptive linguistics have produced not only an entirely new grammatical terminology, but also new definitions of traditional grammatical concepts. The result has been a somewhat bewildering profusion and confusion of overlapping terms. The present glossary is the result of several years of research and of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Descriptive Linguistics, Educational Media, English
1996
The dictionary of contemporary Maori, a revised edition, includes over 2,000 previously unpublished terms and provides Maori derivation of each entry, based on recent research into the language. An introductory section is in both Maori and English. Entries are in two sections: English-Maori and Maori-English. In addition, an appendix lists the…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Language Patterns, Language Research
PDF pending restorationWaters, Bruce, Comp. – 1983
A dictionary of Djinang, a member of the Nhangu group of Australian Aboriginal languages, consists of three parts. The first is an alphabetically-organized listing of Djinang words and contains one or more of these fields of information for each: a Djinang word or phrase, dialect information, part of speech, English meaning, Roget's Thesaurus…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Classification, Creoles, Definitions
Hershberger, Henry D., Comp.; Hershberger, Ruth, Comp. – 1986
The Kuku-Yalanji language is spoken by 500-600 Australian Aboriginal people on the coast of southeastern Cape York and inland to Chillagoe. The dictionary is of the northern dialects of Kuku-Nyungkul, the Rossville/Shipton's Flats dialect, Kuku-Yalanji, the China Camp/Daintree dialect, and Kuku-Jalunji, the Bloomfield dialect. It has three…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adjectives, Classification, Creoles
