Oceanic Voices - European Quills

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Oceanic Voices - European Quills is written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3050064110 (ISBN 10) and 9783050064116 (ISBN 13).

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.