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The product of the authors’ 12 years’ residence (1979‐1991) in Tuvalu as missionaries of the Watchtower Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses, this concise summary of essential features of the Polynesian language of the former Ellice Islands is to be welcomed as being decidedly more accessible for lay readers than other recent works.
Geoff and Jenny Jackson make no claim to providing a complete, exhaustive analysis of the Tuvaluan language, orthographically rendered by Donald Kennedy in 1945 as te ngangana a te Tuvalu, by Niko Besnier in 1981 as te ggana Tuvalu and by the Jackson team in 1993 (in their...
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