Talk:Melanesian languages
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[edit]This is wrong. Melanesia is named after the language-group, not the other way around. 202.1.53.80 12:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- There is no such language group. There was once assumed to be (at least within Malayo-Polynesian), but that classification was based on race: Melanesia was where a purported race of people lived, and their languages were called Melanesian. kwami 12:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Materials on Melanesian languages
[edit]The Melanesian languages (1885)
https://archive.org/details/melanesianlangua00codr
https://archive.org/details/melanesianlangua00codruoft
https://archive.org/details/melanesianlangua00codrrich
A dictionary of the language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks Islands. [Microform] (1896)
https://archive.org/details/adictionarylang00misgoog
The Polynesian wanderings, tracks of the migration deduced from an examination of the proto-Samoan content of Efaté and other languages of Melanesia (1911)
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029870387
https://archive.org/details/polynesianwander00chur
https://archive.org/details/polynesianwander01chur
Nitasvitai irai salm is aged a Tevit Natimarid irai upu Isreel [microform] (1865)
https://archive.org/details/cihm_27983
Nitasvitai uhup [microform] (1856)