Languages of New Guinea

The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 239-266

  Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y ^a   Stebbins, Tonya N ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Austronesian; denomination; Guinea; languages; referred

Indexed keywords

EID: 85188396479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199266623.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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