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	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.
		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.
		The nuclear Polynesian hypothesis implies that the first split of the proto-Polynesian speech community separated the linguistic ancestors of the present Samoan and Tongan.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceania_language/index.htm (1619 words)

	Oceanic subgroups
		The Oceanic languages are members of the Austronesian language family, a language family which, until the advent of European exploration and settlement of the 'New World', had spread out across a considerably larger proportion of the earth than had any other language family.
		Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		He maintains that speakers of languages outside the Western Oceanic group migrated from the area in which POC was spoken, and that the languages of the Western Oceanic group evolved by a process of dialect differentiation from that point on.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/Work/Oceanic_guide.html (5840 words)

	Edward Sapir: Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences: Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the first place, language is felt to be a perfect symbolic system, in a perfectly homogeneous medium, for the handling of all references and meanings that a given culture is capable of, whether these be in the form of actual communications or in that of such ideal substitutes of communication as thinking.
		The language habits of people are by no means irrelevant as unconscious indicators of the more important traits of their personalities, and the folk is psychologically wiser than the adage in paying a great deal of attention willingly or not to the psychological significance of a man's language.
		While language differences have always been important symbols of cultural difference, it is only in comparatively recent times, with the exaggerated development of the ideal of the sovereign nation and with the resulting eagerness to discover linguistic symbols for this ideal of sovereignty, that language differences have taken on an implication of antagonism.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Sapir/Sapir_1933_a.html (9505 words)

	Maori Information Center - maori culture
		Māori (or Maori) is the Polynesian language spoken in New Zealand.
		The Māori language effectively ceased to be a living community language in the post war years when there was a period of wholesale maori bone pendant rapid urbanisation of the Māori population.
		State funding for teaching of the language ensures that it is maori dictionary maori traditions an option in all state schools and from March 2004 a Māori TV service part broadcast in the language has been funded.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Maori.html (1659 words)

	The Nuclear Taboo by Verna Gehring
		However, Cold War policy planners adopted the language that described nuclear weapons as "different"—separate from the "conventional" arsenal—but not because nuclear use was taboo, as the ordinary citizen might accept.
		Mutual intimidation explains all the effects we now associate with those of a "nuclear taboo." The ban against nuclear warfare is based on a calculated reasoning of the costs and benefits of nuclear warfare, and at present this rational calculus has not tipped in favor of lifting the ban.
		But it is not a taboo that prohibits use of nuclear means because atomic weapons are evil, because the possibility of nuclear warfare is inconceivable, or because the authority that decides on their deployment surely must be mad.
	www.puaf.umd.edu /IPPP/Summer00/nuclear_taboo.htm (3018 words)

	Languages of the World
		The label language isolate is used for a language that is the only representative of a language family, as Basque or the extinct Sumerian language; the presumptive but unknown sister languages of isolates are dead and unrecorded.
		The languages of seven of the nine extant branches of the Indo-European language family are spoken in Europe.
		Dialects of two languages in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European also are or were spoken in Europe: the Jassic dialect of Ossetic, an Iranian language, formerly spoken in Hungary; and the European dialects of Romany, which was spread by Gypsies throughout Europe and into America.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/Linguistics/lgsworld.html (1332 words)

	Polynesia presented in Travelling section
		They speak Polynesian languages (see Austronesian Languages).The Polynesians are not indigenous to Polynesia; ethnologists differ as to their origin, but the most accepted view is that they were established in the Malay Archipelago about the 2nd century BC, when they were driven eastward by over population.
		Early Polynesian economy was based on cultivating taro and yams, gathering fruit and coconuts, fishing, and raising pigs.
		At the turn of the 20th century the Polynesian islands became part of the Établissements français d’Océanie (French Pacific Settlements) and a programme of rapid commercial expansion was introduced.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/comments/polynesia (1462 words)

	Resources on the Polynesian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The early Polynesians were skillful navigators, capable, by careful observations of cloud reflections and bird flight patterns, to determine the existence and location of islands.
		While the early Polynesians were skilled navigators, most evidence indicates that their primary exploratory motivation was to ease the demands of burgeoning populations.
		Polynesian mythology does not speak of explorers bent on conquest of new territories, but rather of heroic discoverers of new lands for the benefit of those who voyaged with them.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/pacific/Polynesian.html (2114 words)

	Austronesian languages - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.
		The Austronesian languages tend to use reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word, such as wiki-wiki), and, like many East and Southeast Asian languages, have highly restrictive phonotactics, with small numbers of phonemes and predominantly consonant-vowel syllables.
		The internal structure of the Austronesian languages is difficult to work out, as the family consists of many very similar and very closely related languages with large numbers of dialect continua, making it difficult to recognize boundaries between branches.
	www.sanpablocaus.com /details/Austronesian_languages (2302 words)

	Y Chromosomal Evidence for the Origins of Oceanic-Speaking Peoples -- Hurles et al. 160 (1): 289 -- Genetics
		Polynesian populations and the Micronesian population from the
		Language families and subfamilies are indicated on the branches of the tree.
		The genetic ancestry of the Polynesian outliers is poorly resolved.
	www.genetics.org /cgi/content/full/160/1/289 (6693 words)

	Hans Schmidt
		Although “the historical relationships between the Fijian dialects themselves and with regard to the Polynesian languages cannot adequately be shown in a family tree” (Pawley 1979:13), I try and present a synthesis of the claims of Geraghty (1983) and Pawley (1996:95) in the following diagram.
		Compared to Central-Pacific languages that had not lost touch with their neighboring dialects and languages, the sound changes in Rotuman were much further reaching and more numerous during this period of isolation than in later centuries (when contact with Polynesia and perhaps with Fiji was more intensive).
		The idiosyncratic development during the long isolation is the reason that “The Rotuman language is totally unintelligible to speakers of Fijian and Polynesian languages, to which it is genetically most closely related” (Geraghty 1984:34).
	www.hawaii.edu /oceanic/rotuma/os/schmidt/Schmidt.html (3979 words)

	Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages are a branch of the Austronesian family that are thought to have dispersed from a possible homeland in Sulawesi.
		The Sunda-Sulawesi languages or Inner Hesperonesian (Inner Western Malayo-Polynesian) languages, which include the languages of Sulawesi and the Greater Sunda Islands, as well as a few outliers such as Charmorro and Palauan; and
		the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, which include the languages to the east (the Lesser Sunda Islands, Halmahera, Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Pacific).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_Malayo-Polynesian_languages (154 words)

	Ethnologue: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara
		One of the Retta varieties is thought to be a separate language by an Alorese--possibly a separate language on Pura.
		Growing in its role as a language of wider communication, functioning as a symbol of inter-ethnic solidarity in the region, predominantly in urban areas.
		Some first language speakers of Tetun Dili consider themselves to be bilingual in Tetun because of contact, but when pressed, admit there are domains in which communication is completely blocked.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Indn.html (2258 words)

	UNPO
		The missionaries sought to make the Polynesians follow the teachings of the Good Book and their own autocratic commandments, but fortunately some of the traditional ways survived.
		The Polynesian concept of family is very broad, encompassing cousins, uncles, aunts and are called fetii.
		France's nuclear testing in the South Pacific, especially in Moruroa, has inflicted long-term environmental damage to the geographical structuring of the atoll.
	www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=36 (1519 words)

	Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy \| REPORT \| University of Maryland
		Thomas C. Schelling suggests that over the years a convention has arisen, one which provides strong evidence that nuclear weapons are under a "curse." Schelling is hopeful that, because the nuclear arsenal is perceived as unique--in some way different from conventional weapons--a "nuclear taboo" has taken root over the decades and can remain secure.
		However, Cold War policy planners adopted the language that described nuclear weapons as "different"--separate from the "conventional" arsenal--but not because nuclear use was taboo, as the ordinary citizen might accept.
		The "nuclear taboo" exists today because possessors of atomic weapons--and their general populations--condemn those who would consider their use on any but the most extreme occasion.
	www.puaf.umd.edu /IPPP/reports/vol20sum00/taboo.html (3040 words)

	Tahiti :: Gowealthy.com
		Polynesiawas used repeatedly as a nuclear testing zone by the French, and the end of thenuclear programme (and the construction and service jobs which it brought withit) has led, in the short term, to high local unemployment and consequently aheavy dependence on migratory labour.
		The territory thus suffers from a serioustrade deficit: imports exceed exports by a factor of ten, so that considerableaid is needed from the French to balance the country's finances.
		The largest of the Polynesian archipelagoes which includes 76 islands and atolls spread out over more than 20,000 square km slumbered for many years.....
	www.gowealthy.com /article/country/tahiti/index.asp (514 words)

	Family tree - Polynesian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Niuatoputapu is here classified as a Wallisian language, and not as an unclassified language within the Samoic-Outlier group, based on the classification made by Grimes 1992 where Niuatoputapu is considered to be genetically closer to the Wallisian language Niuafo'ou than to any other language.
		Reao is here classified as a language, and not as a dialect of Tuamotuan, based on the statement by P.H. Audrian 1919 (Notes sur le dialecte Paumotu) that Reao is incomprehensible to speakers of the Tuamotuan language, and also on my own field experiences of Reao in 1993.
		Rapa is here classified as a Tahitic language, and not as an unclassified language within the Central Polynesian subgroup, based on Biggs' 1971 statement that the language spoken on the island of Rapa today is a variant of the Tahitian language.
	www.ling.su.se /pollinet/facts/tree.html (334 words)

	UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 40, no. 1 (2001)
		The languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia manifest a number of innovations in the Proto-Oceanic pronominal system, the most interesting of these—and the most useful for subgrouping purposes—being in the nonsingular focal pronouns.
		Although the Fijian languages and Rotuman are thought to be closely related genetically, and are all accusative languages, considerable differences are observed in their case-marking strategies.
		The Mangarevan language of the Gambier Islands, situated between Tahiti and Easter Island,displays one of the largest collections of doublets among the forty-odd Polynesian languages.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL401.html (1264 words)

	Oceania Project: French Polynesia
		Throughout history dominant languages have spread at the expense of weaker ones, but in this era, in which the world is shrinking through industrialization, education and the mass media, the process has accelerated, with even major languages such as French and Spanish, or English in the States, becoming concerned about their fate.
		In the nineteenth century, subsequent to the upheaval of European contact, Polynesians and Melanesians were widely believed to be on the verge of extinction due to disease, the razzias to obtain cheap labour, and the impact of Christianity which all but destroyed the pre-existing social structure.
		These languages, together with Tahitian, are East Polynesian languages and members of the vast Austronesian language family.
	www.eirelink.com /classweb/frpolyn.htm (2360 words)

	UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 32, no. 1 (1993)
		In a number of language groups, several of the processes occurred and appear to have been in competition as methods for "dealing with" final consonants.
		Even in languages in which all final consonants were earlier lost, borrowings are now regularized the addition of a paragogic vowel rather than the loss of the consonant.
		As more and more languages are examined for evidence of verb serialization, more and more varieties of the phenomenon have turned up.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL321.html (1121 words)

	Nga Whakapapa Kupu
		The last step before the development of the distinctively Polynesian family of languages familiar to most New Zealanders took place after Austronesian-speaking people started to settle the islands in the Fiji group, 3,000 or more years ago, developing their own distinctive idiom which later evolved into the Fijian, Rotuman and Polynesian languages respectively.
		The immediate ancestor of all modern Polynesian languages probably developed during a relatively lengthy sojourn in one of the islands of the Fiji group, remembered as Pülotu in Western Polynesian tradition, and carried from there to Tonga before the scattering of the Polynesian peoples throughout the eastern Pacific.
		At this stage, the Samoan group of Polynesian languages begin developing in their own way, while those of the explorers, based probably in the Society Islands to start with, follow a separate path.
	www.edesignz.co.nz /dictionary/Nga_Whakapapa_Kupu.htm (3511 words)

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		Their chosen spokesman, a Polynesian veteran from world war I, Pouvanaa a Oopa, had been a critic of wrong-doings and injustices, especially those committed against his own people.
		The Polynesian people have a strong bodily structure and are beautiful, they have fl eyes and a copper-tone skin color; hair is fl and even.
		Many represantatives from polynesian churches, environmental organizations, political parties, with them the minister for health Jacqui Drollet demanded in august 1988 the establishment of an radiometer-institute under the control of the W H O that should examine coherence between the cancer rates and the nuclear fallout.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/nukes/Mururoa11.20.95.txt (1104 words)

	Modern Languages and Linguistics Library
		The 30-plus Polynesian languages spoken by the seafarers who settled the region are discussed at somewhat greater length, as are the general characteristics of the myths themselves.
		The section on language discusses the teaching of French in China, Korea, and Japan, as well as issues related to translation between French and Asian languages.
		Nine studies of Polynesian culture and its representations in various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, sociology, history, education, literature, and psychology.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/French/Francophone/pacificocean.htm (2141 words)

	Great families of Polynesia: inter-island links and marriage patterns Journal of Pacific History, The - Find Articles
		What is also clear is that the people thought of themselves in tribal or clan terms united by a common homeland, a common cult and, in some islands and districts, a common canoe tradition.
		The importance of duality, and bifurcation in Polynesian culture generally, probably owes much to the dualism or pluralist nature of Polynesian tribal or clan history.
		The persistance of the same homeland names such as Hawaiki and Vavau and their variants, and the same tribal names such as Tongafiti, Manahune, and others also testify to the interconnectedness of the Islands though the picture is often of separate peoples moving in harmonious but different ways.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2375/is_n2_v32/ai_20554487 (485 words)

	ORLAPUBS P. L45: ASPECTS OF MARKEDNESS THEORY
		While child language can play a róle in studying naturalness--less-natural sounds and syllable shapes are acquired later than more-natural sounds and syllable shapes, one should be aware that vowel-space and consonant-space are more restricted in the earliest phases of language-acquisition.
		A language phenomenon is natural to the degree that markering corresponds to its markedness; thus, a form is more or less natural according to the degree of parallelism between its degree of markering and its degree of markedness.
		Note also that some languages treat a given satellite as a consonant (Greek satellite u became a labial fricative), though most languages treat it as vowel-like (and not a separate segment but part of a single-segment diphthong); this is one of the rare cases when it is legitimate to let a phonetic transcription--[au] vs.
	www.orlapubs.com /AL/L45.html (5025 words)

	Abstract 10
		The men and women who have grown up on the thousands of islands across the Pacific Ocean have been for the most part isolated from the conveniences and controversies of the modern age by the vast stretches of water that separate them from crowded cities of the continents.
		They have been passive recipients of nuclear fallout, have developed health problems, and have lost several of their atols because of the many tests conducted by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom in their region.
		Other Polynesian languages, such as Tongan and Samoan, have several meanings for the term.
	www.usp.ac.fj /editorial/jpacs_new/abstract_10.html (704 words)

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