Phrase book : English-native dictionary / New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission
- Bib ID:
- 8152429
- Format:
- Book
- Related Online Resources:
- https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/NT3/items/phrasebook
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- Description:
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- [Vanuatu?] : New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission, [1955?]
- 110 pages ; 21 cm
- Summary:
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A phrase book made for the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission, designed to be filled in with equivalents for English words. This copy is partially filled in (in Nafsan, South Efate) by Shirley McRae, probably in the 1950s when she was a lay missionary teacher in Pango and Iririki.
- Full contents:
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- Anatomy and medical
- Boats and fishing
- Colours and pigments
- Geography, astronomy, times & seasons
- House and household
- Natural history
- Interrogatives
- Numerals
- Pronouns
- Relationships
- Religion and customs
- Weapons and tools
- [Alphabet]
- Notes:
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- Library's copy signed by former owner Shirley McRae, with a pink notecard tipped in the front, saying, "To our friends in the New Hebrides, With love from St. Cuthbert's Primary children, Ballarat".
- Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures website: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/NT3/items/phrasebook
- Text in English with translations to some words handwritten in the South Efate language.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Donated by Australian linguist Nicholas Thieberger.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Presbyterian phrase book
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1955
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