[NEW GUINEA] Bwaidoka tales

A$50 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

: collected and translated by Maribelle Young . Canberra : ANU, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. Series: Pacific Linguistics, Series D no. 16. Quarto, stiff wrappers, pp viii, 136, 10; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to the front free-endpaper. Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a local lingua franca, especially in the islands of the D Entrecasteaux Archipelago.

• Binding: Hardcover

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