(Sye), is the primary language spoken on the island Erromango in the Tafea region of the Vanuatu islands. The other Erromanga languages are either moribund...
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Erromango family Southern: Sie, Sorung† Northern: Ifo (Utaha)†, Ura (See Erromanga language#Linguistic situation for a description) Tanna family Southern: Kwamera...
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Se language may refer to: Fanafo language of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu Erromanga language of southern Vanuatu Saxwe language of Benin, West Africa This...
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Erromango (redirect from Erromanga Island)
elderly Ura speakers remain. These four languages constitute the Erromanga branch of South Vanuatu languages. Due to a lack of documentation, it is unclear...
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James Gordon (missionary) (category Translators of the Bible into Oceanic languages)
translated the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew into the Erromanga language. Gordon was killed by a native man in 1872. He is usually regarded...
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Oceanic languages. The country's three official languages are of foreign origin: English, French, and Bislama, an English-based creole language. Additional...
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extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (category Javanese language)
Malayo-Polynesian, as the language family was then called), and in 1906 he published a study of Aneityum and Erromanga, two languages in the Vanuatu branch...
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Erromanga on 20 November 1839. He was 43 years of age. The complete Bible was published in 1851. [Insert by Tangata Vainerere, 2014] Samoan language first...
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considered, a letter (1841), by "the author of Jethro" The Martyr of Erromanga: Or, The Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death,...
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Chronicle. In 1817 it was James who handed Bibles to John Williams (of Erromanga) and Robert Moffat, in the commissioning service which sent them off to...
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Gibbon Wakefield: Builder of the British Commonwealth, Paul Bloomfield Erromanga: The Martyr Isle, H. A. Robertson, John Fraser Evangelical Magazine and...
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missionary, Congregationalist colleague of John Williams (the 'Martyr of Erromanga'), author of ethnographic works and co-translator of the Bible into Cook...
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List of shipwrecks in August 1849 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
she was condemned. Avenger New South Wales The cutter was wrecked on Erromanga Island, New Hebrides before 11 August. Brothers United Kingdom The ship...
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List of shipwrecks in December 1847 (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
wrecked at Brook, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. Erromanga United Kingdom The ship ran aground and sank at Cape Janissary, in the...
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