[NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Mailu language.

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Edited and enlarged from the researches of the Rev. W. J. V. Saville and the Comte d Argigny by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill With a foreword by Ernst Schwarzenburg London : Luzac Co., 1944. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed blue wrappers (sunned, spine reinforced with later green cloth); pp 72; half title with the bookplate of the Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher, Melbourne (small loss near bottom edge), very clean throughout. Mailu Island lies off the southern coast of New Guinea, 250 km southeast of Port Moresby. Mailu (or Magi) is a non-Austronesian Trans-New Guinea language spoken by people living on the islands of Mailu, Laluoru, Loupomu and Eunuoro and along the south coast between Cape Rodney and mid-Orangerie Bay of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea. Trove locates 6 copies (NLA; SLNSW; SLSA; ANU; University of Sydney; Deakin University).

• Binding: Hardcover

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