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A Grammar of the Language of Lamalanga, North Raga, New Hebrides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

W. G. Ivens
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LAMALANGA is situated on the north-west coast of the island called Raga, or Araga (Pentecost Island), in the central New Hebrides, Melanesia.

The head station of the Melanesian Mission on Raga is at Lamalanga which itself is on the coast; but the people who speak the language represented in this grammar live on the hills just above the Mission Station. Dr. R. H. Codrington published a grammar of the language spoken at Vun Marama on the same coast, a few miles north of Lamalanga.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , October 1938 , pp. 733 - 763
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1938

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References

page 733 note 1 See references below.

page 735 note 1 Op. cit., p. 432.

page 735 note 2 This may be the interchange of t and d which Codrington refers to.

page 736 note 1 See ” Melanesian Demonstratives,“ BSOS., Vol. IX, Part 2, 1938.Google Scholar

page 751 note 1 Mr. Ray informs me that Lamalanga hav is phonetically the equivalent of the Nogugu sap, but sav is not.

page 758 note 1 For the change from hangvul to ngavul see MIL. 346, 55, and 283, 56, where the same change occurs.

page 759 note 1 Vudolu may perhaps be vu-dolu, where dolu = all; cf. Bugotu udolu “ all ” and Mota nol.

page 760 note 1 Supplied by Rev. H. W. Drummond for Mr. S. H. Ray, who has kindly allowed it to be used.