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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
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Grant, Anthony P. – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
This paper presents, in a compact and usable form, the body of known material on the diverse dialectical forms of the Karankawa Indians of coastal Texas, who have been extinct since the last of their number perished in the 1850s. John Reed Swanton (1940) published 5 of the 6 main sources in a Karankawa-English vocabulary, but his works omitted the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Language Research
Thompson, David A. – 1988
The Australian aboriginal language Kuuku Ya'u and its closely related dialect Umpila are described. An introductory chapter provides information on the classification of the languages, linguistic type, and dialect groups. The second chapter outlines aspects of the phonology of Kuuku Y'au and Umpila, including phonemes, vowel length, consonant…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Research
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Waters, 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