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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5478 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 4 13 February 2015 at 5:58am | IP Logged |
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I am hoping to start a discussion about Oceanic languages, the resources available for them. I've
searched around on the site for a bit but really didn't find anything for languages other than Hawaiian. I would like to pick one of these languages to start studying. However, I am having a hard time a) selecting one and b) finding resources for them more broadly. So perhaps this can be a place where anyone attempting to study an Oceanic language can share their experiences. Does anyone have any experience learning an Oceanic language? Or possibly can give any recommendations on resources? Any info would be appreciated. Please forgive me if this is the wrong section to post this in but I wasn't sure which other section may be appropriate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 2 of 4 13 February 2015 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
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Are you looking for Polynesian (Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan, Tahitian), or the Micronesian and
Melanesian languages too? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7219 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 4 13 February 2015 at 9:03am | IP Logged |
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@ Po-ru,
If you don't even know which Oceanic language to study or give any specifics of interest, then how can members give suggestions and advice for help? Many of these don't have a lot of commercial resources, so it would be better to be more precise and just name even a top five. This way members have a direction where to go. Edited by alang on 13 February 2015 at 10:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5057 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 4 13 February 2015 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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I would think any discussion of "Oceanic" languages would have to include Micronesian and Melanesian languages
as well as Polynesian, as all three areas mostly have languages from the Austronesian family. The only weird case would be in and around New Guinea, where diverse Papuan and creole languages are spoken that aren't closely related to other languages of Oceania. Really though, anyone who's interested in the Austronesian languages linguistically rather than the region of Oceania proper, should look at the languages in that family that are much more widely spoken, but on islands that are traditionally considered part of Asia or Africa: Indonesian, Malay, Javanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, Malagasy. Edited by robarb on 13 February 2015 at 8:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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