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| The four regions of the Pacific |
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Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Australia |
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| How many distinct languages are there in the Pacific? |
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| Fourteen hundred languages (spoken by 0.1% of the world population) |
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| Speakers of the same language living in seperate areas often speak differently, but usually not great enough to prevent communciation between them. |
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Whether speakers from one group can or cannot carry on a normal conversation with speakers of another. |
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| Why is it hard to test for mutual intelligibility in the Pacific? |
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| Because people not only speak the language of their own community, but aquire an understanding of the languages of neighboring communites at a very early age. |
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| An example of social identity |
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East and West Fijiian Hindi and Urudu (two dialects of the same language, but for non-linguistic reasons, speakers say they are two different languages. |
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| A dialect chain is found in a series of communities which each community has a different dialect. |
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| languages spoken by a small number of old people - nearly extinct |
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| Some problems facing counting languages in the pacific: |
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1. Insufficient information 2. Moribund languages 3. Dialect chain (no way to seperate one language from the other) |
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| Both Polynesia and Micronesia follow the rule of one language per island or island group. |
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| How many languages are spoken in the Polynesian Triangle? |
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| How may people speak Samoan? |
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| Two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) |
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| How many speakers are there for TONGAN TAHITIAN and NEW ZEALAND MAORI? |
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| One hundred thousand each (100,000) |
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| How many languages are spoken in Micronesia? |
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| What language rule does Melanesia follow? |
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| Every island in Melanesia has many languages spoken in it. |
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| How many people speak ROTUMA? |
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| How many dialects are considered "Fijian"? |
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| Thirty to forty dialects. |
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| There are two languages spoken in Fiji |
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Western - spoken in western Viti Levu Eastern - spoken in the rest of the country |
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| How many languages are spoken in NEW CALEDONIA? |
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| How many people speak Drehu? Speak Paici? (NEW CALEDONIA) The rest? |
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7,000 and 5,000 The other 28 languages have <200 speakers |
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| How many languages are in VANUATU? |
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| One hundred to one hundred and ten (100-110) |
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| How many languages in the SOLOMON Islands? |
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Sixty-three (63), North Malaita with 13,500, Kawar'ae with 12,500. 12 have <200 speakers, 6 of those have <50. |
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| What is the most linguistically diverse nation in the world? |
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| How many people live in Paupa New Guinea? |
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4 million, with >700 languages 9 of those are spoken by >40,000 people 114 of those are spoken by <200. |
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| Where is Irian Yaya located? |
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| Melanesia. Very little reasearch done. ~200 languages, 4 spoken by 40,000+ |
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| Australia (200 different languages - of those, 50 are now extinct) |
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| Western Desert languages - 6,000 speakers |
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| Order of linguists in the Pacific |
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1. Navigators 2. Missionaries 3. Professional Linguists |
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| What three reasons to linguists have in the pacific? |
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1. Comparitive-historical: establish relationships between Pacific languages and others 2. Descriptive: analysis, dictionary, etc 3. Theoretical: finding patterns in the language |
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| University of Hawaii is one of the major study centers for Micronesian languages. Not much was known about the language of Micronesia before WW2 |
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| There was only one linguist in the field between 1910 and 1960. |
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| Javan; Straight, course black hair; |
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Javans (Achmad) dominate Indonesian government, slaugetered many Chinese (Ping Wah). |
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Wiwor and Sauakari hated Javan dictatorship, but also: Highlanders: lowlanders are effete sago eaters Lowlanders: highlanders are primitive big-heads (big, coiled hair and arrogance) |
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| Indonesia is the worlds fourth most populated nation |
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| The biggest population movements of the last 6,000 years? |
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| How many langauges psoken in the Philippines, and western and central Indonesia? |
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| Three hundred seventy four (374), all closely tied to western Malao-Polyensian. |
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Austronesian consists of four subfamilies - 3 for taiwan, and one malayo-polenesian (Western MP/Central Eastern MP) |
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| How many languages are there in Austronesian? |
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| Nine hundred and fifty-nine languages |
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| MALAYO POLYNESIAN contains how many languages. |
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| Nine-hundred and fourty-five (945) |
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