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	Gilbertese language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Gilbertese or Kiribati (sometimes Kiribatese, a mixture of both) is a language from the Austronesian family, part of the Oceanian branch and of the Nuclear Micronesian subbranch.
		Description of the language as Gilbertese or Kiribatese is sometimes considered a relic of colonial days by some I-Kiribati (the people of Kiribati).
		Gilbertese language, Useful phrases, External links, Austronesian languages, Languages of Fiji, Languages of Kiribati, Languages of Tuvalu, Languages of Vanuatu, Languages of the Marshall Islands, Languages of the Solomon Islands, Languages of Nauru and Micronesian languages.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gilbertese_language (539 words)

	Gilbertese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Only 30% of Kiribati speakers are fully bilingual with English, meaning that the language is in no current danger of being swallowed by the latter.
		Such adjustments are common to all languages as "modern" things require creation of new words.
		This page was last modified 17:16, 13 July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilbertese (502 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Gilbertese language
		The other are the inhabitants of Nui (Tuvalu), of Rabi (Fiji) and some other islands where Gilbertese have been relocated Solomon and Vanuatu or emigrated (New Zealand and Hawaii mainly).
		Only 30% of Gilbertese speakers are fully bilingual with English, meaning that the language is in no current danger of being swallowed by English.
		Gilbertese is written in the Latin alphabet, and has been since the 1840s, when Hiram Bingham Jr, a missionary, first translated the Bible into Gilbertese and required an alphabet in which to write it.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Gilbertese (469 words)

	The Languages of Oceania
		He said, however, that the language spoken by the Malays and the Polynesians was clear evidence of the origins of the Polynesians.
		The Gilbertese, however, were not used to see their language in a written form and, consequently, needed to be taught how to read their own Gilbertese words.
		On the outer islands, the Kiribati language is not in any immediate danger of being lost as a consequence of influences from foreign countries nor is it faced with serious linguistic problems as a result of introduced technologies from developed and industrial nations.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_language (1619 words)

	Kiribati - Origins
		Despite the variations that exists between islands in the Gilbert Group, most Gilbertese people believe their ancestors were spirits, some created in Samoa and some in the Gilberts, and that it was the movement from Samoa which populated the Gilbert Islands for the first time.
		The Gilbertese language, for example, belongs to the very large Austronesian language family which evolved in Southeast Asia and began to spread into the Pacific about 5000 years ago.
		All the important plants used by Gilbertese, the coconut, breadfruit, babai and pandanus, are native to the Southeast Asia/Indonesia area.
	www.janeresture.com /ki33/origins.htm (1728 words)

	Banaba
		The culture and language of Banaba is basically that of the I-Kiribati, albeit with some significant differences (for example a preference for exogenous adoption).
		Captain Walkup had translated the Bible into the Gilbertese language, and encouraged the community to adopt the language so the Banabans would be able to hear the word of God.
		The language experts have drawn a complete blank, while the Elders are sure this is a lullaby from the old language.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /kiribati/about_destin/banaba.html (2455 words)

	Kiribati - Search View - MSN Encarta
		English is the official language of Kiribati, and many I-Kiribati speak it in addition to their native language, Gilbertese, an Austronesian language.
		The new nation became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and adopted the name Kiribati, a rendering of the word “Gilberts” in the Gilbertese language.
		In September 1979 Kiribati signed a treaty of friendship with the United States in which the United States gave up its claims to Kanton and Enderbury islands; the two islands were formally ceded to Kiribati in 1983.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562805__1/Kiribati.html (2517 words)

	Language Dictionary Guide
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	languages-guide.com /topics/Language-Dictionary.html (1197 words)

	Kiribati - Language Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Bingham had only a typewriter with a broken "S" so it does not occur in the language and "ti" is used for that sound instead.
		Hale's Tarawan Vocabulary - Data from the first known description of Gilbertese by Horatio Emmons Hale in 1846.
		- Research paper presenting evidence for ternary metrical constituents in Gilbertese with the first known in-depth study of prosody in a Micronesian language and a constraint-based analysis of Gilbertese prosody in particular.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/kiribati.htm (508 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography: Semantic Index
		Notebook on the Language of the Kingsmill Group, as recorded by the two sailors, Kirby and Grey, who have been left on the islands.
		An Annotated Bibliography of the Languages of the GI, EI, and Nauru.
		Publications in Languages of the Micronesian Islands from the Libraries of Bernice P. Bishop Museum and Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, Honolulu, Hawaii.
	www.trussel.com /kir/s_ling.htm (1144 words)

	Australia and Oceania
		Australia, the British "prison island": English is the native language of about 90% (15 million people), but other native languages of the aborigines are spoken as well.
		English is official and widely understood, but used for government and commercial purposes only and is the first language of only 7% of the population (600 people).
		English is the official language but used only by 1-2%, and Melanesian pidgin is the lingua franca amongst 120 indigenous languages.
	lazarus.elte.hu /~guszlev/gb/aust.htm (218 words)

	UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 38, no. 2 (1999)
		Ternary metrical constituents of the sort found in Gilbertese are quite rare cross-linguistically, and as far as we know, Gilbertese is the only language in the world reported to have a ternary constraint on prosodic word size.
		Pazeh, once the heritage of a substantial language community in the Puli basin of central Taiwan, appears to be down to its last fluent speaker.
		Both in its phonology and its morphology, this little-studied language sheds light on aspects of Proto-Austronesian that are only feebly attested in the language family as a whole.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL382.html (1218 words)

	KIRIBATI ASTRONOMY AND NAVIGATION
		The apex of the middle pair is held to be at the point where the star Rigel (beta Orionis) crosses the meridian.
		These middle rafters represent the Gilbertese celestial equator, which, being fixed by the declination of Rigel, is seen to be placed about 8 degrees south of our own.
		In the diagram of the eastern sky above, the inferior half of each interval is therefore a marena ni bong, and 'belongs to' the purlin beneath it; while the superior half is a nikanewe, and belongs to the purlin above it.
	www.janeresture.com /kiribati_astronomy/index.htm (1567 words)

	A Brief History part B
		The Gilbertese people held various rights to lands, b’ab’ai pits, fish traps and fishing areas by virtue of their membership in a particular kaainga or utuu.
		He experienced great difficulty in converting people because the Gilbertese still believed in their gods and spirits and although they were curious about Christianity, they were not interested in changing their whole way of life.
		Two Gilbertese men, Beetero and Tiiroi, returning from working in Tahiti in the early 1880s, brought the Roman Catholic Church to the islands when they started to convert the people of their island, Nonouti.
	www.fanning-island.com /_wsn/page15.html (3637 words)

	Kiribati Bibliography - Titles M-P
		Notebook on the Language of the Kingsmill Group, as recorded by the two sail...
		Outlines of a grammar of the GI language.
		Primer in the Gilbertese language for Catholic Schools.
	www.trussel.com /kir/giltitm.htm (2722 words)

	Tuvaluan facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Micronesian language Ikiribati (Gilbertese) is spoken on the Tuvaluan atoll of Nui (Stanley 1989:422 and 424).
		Te ngangana a te tuvalu: Handbook on the language of the Ellice Islands.
		A vocabulary of the Nanuma dialect of the language of the Ellice Islands
	www.ling.su.se /pollinet/facts/tuv.html (250 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Description of the language as Gilbertese or Kiribatese is considered an offensive relic of colonial days by some I-Kiribati (the people of Kiribati).
		The official description is Kiribati, or 'the Kiribati language'.
		The Kiribati language is written in the Latin alphabet, and has been since the 1840s, when Hiram Bingham Jr, a missionary, first translated the Bible into Kiribati and required an alphabet in which to write it.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Gilbertese_language (521 words)

	Kiribati: Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Kiribati is a Micronesian language of the Austronesian group.
		The precise affinities with other languages are unknown, but there is some degree of overlap with Samoan, a Polynesian language (as might be expected on historical grounds).
		Bingham's dictionary is Gilbertese to English only and, of course, lacks many modern words.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/language.html (403 words)

	History of Kiribati
		The I-Kiribati people (or Gilbertese) settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands (named by von Krusenstern, an Estonian admiral of the Czar, in 1820, after a British captain, Thomas Gilbert) between 3000 and 2000 years ago.
		In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony to form the independent state of Tuvalu.
		The Gilberts obtained internal self-government in 1977, and after general elections held in February 1978 (Chief Minister: Ieremia Tabai, 27), formally became an independent nation on July 12 1979 under the name of Kiribati (the rendition of Gilberts, in Gilbertese language).
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/h/hi/history_of_kiribati.html (581 words)

	mnrpcv.org - Welcome in Many Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		There are 70 other languages that say it differently.
		As you may notice, there is no difference between the Romanian and the "Moldovan" phrase, as there actually is no such language as Moldovan.
		The notion of "Moldovan" language was introdauced by Stalin in 1940, when he forced the Romanian population in what was "the Soviet Republic of Moldova" to use the Russian script in writing the Romanian language.
	www.mnrpcv.org /WelcomeLanguages.html (474 words)

	Language Menu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For locales with only a language code the Accept-Language header is set to "language, English".
		For locales with a country code as well as a language code the Accept-Language header is set to "language-country, language, English".
		It also fixes a bug in the language pack installer scripts.
	www.vaelen.org /languagemenu (157 words)

	The University of Adelaide Library
		Gilbertese words and meanings not found in Bingham's dictionary. 1 v.
		Notes on Gilbertese language, customs and material culture, with list of purchases for Maude's South Sea Islands library, undated (c1930-35).
		Traditions and legends of Nui in Tuvalu; translated from the Gilbertese of Anetipa (Anetiba) of Nui by Reid Cowell.
	www.adelaide.edu.au /library/special/maude_pt2.html (2942 words)

	Kiribati: Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As soon as the word was out that an American who spoke Gilbertese was visiting, I would be surrounded by the villiagers, answering questions about the war and America.
		I enjoyed the Gilbert language very much and was particularly entertained by their slang.
		One shock was how much of my Gilbertese language I had forgotten in 25 years.
	www.wysiwyg.co.nz /kiribati/travel.html (2301 words)

	EDU2 : Level 3
		Language and Popular Culture in Africa:zaire et al.
		Handbook of WA Aboriginal languages, south of the Kimberley
		Native Tongue the Language of the Hawaiian Islands
	www.my-edu2.com /EDU/langua1.htm (152 words)

	Omniseek: /Open Directory /Regional /Pacific Islands /Gilbert Islands /
		Learn the story of Banaba, a small island suffering the ravages of phosphate mining and environmental destruction, and meet its people.
		The first known description of Gilbertese was published in 1846, in the Ethnology and Philology volume of the report of the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-42, compiled by Horatio (Emmons) Hale.
		Casual tourists or those stranded there by airline foul-ups generally don't like the place.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{6431} (222 words)

	Republic of Kiribati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The flag is the banner of the arms that was given to Gilbert and Elice islands in 1937.
		This flag came in use in 1979 after the country became a republic.
		"Kiribati" is pronounced Kirribarce (kih-rih-baht), and is a rendering into an Oceanic language form of the English name Gilberts (the shorthand form of the Gilbert Islands' name).
	www.micronesiagenweb.com /islands/kiribati (280 words)

	Search OLAC Archives - Kiribati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		alphabet corpus description dictionary discourse documentation grammar language lexicon linguistics morphology phonology recording speech syntax text
		description: Gilbertese recordings - Now the Republic of Kiribati which is also the name given to the Polynesian language spoken in the South Pacific group..
		description: A page from the Web edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th edition) giving basic facts about the language (including population, location, alternate names, dialects, and classification) with notes on language use and...
	www.language-archives.org /tools/search?query=Kiribati (137 words)

	Phrasebase™ - GILBERTESE LANGUAGE Facts and Information - GILBERTESE Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		We use a variety of sources for compiling these facts and information about Gilbertese Language.
		Base your opinion on factors such as how easy it is to learn, how it sounds, how well you can use it to convey your thoughts, etc...
		Internet's largest intelligent database of detailed facts, information and statistics about every human language in the world
	63.217.229.7 /languages/index.php?cat=268 (176 words)

	Eric Larson President of Stellar Media, Maggie Valley NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As a U.S. Peace Corps health volunteer (2001-2003) in the Republic of Kiribati, he initiated an ongoing project to translate the Hesperian Foundation’s Where There Is No Doctor grassroots medical text into the Gilbertese language.
		In 1998, and again in 1999, he traveled to Bermuda to research the little-known World War II mission of the Censorettes, 1,000 women from throughout the British Empire who could read every language in the world; the ladies combed every piece of mail traveling between Europe and the Americas looking for coded spy correspondence.
		The result of dozens of interviews and many hours in the Bermuda National Archives, the screenplay Bermuda (2000) relates the unlikely romance of a Censorette and an American construction worker who together must discover who is letting spy correspondence through the mail.
	www.stellarmediaonline.com /eric-larson.html (676 words)

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