This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts ...
IN this volume, Dr. Macdonald sets forth the proposition that the Oceanic languages originated in the Arabian peninsula, and are thus cognate with the Semitic tongues. The primitive Oceanic he regards ...
For 25 years it has been known that the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi and Jayapura groups in Irian Jaya belong to the Oceanic subgroup. It has also been suggested recently that they form a ...