LEADER 02913nam 2200505zu 450 001 9910947814803321 005 20211120 035 $a(CKB)37381317700041 035 $a(oapen)doab74470 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937381317700041 100 $a20250129|2021uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aA Dictionary of Vure?s, Vanuatu 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 225 1 $aAsia-Pacific Linguistics 311 08$a9781760464608 311 08$a1760464600 311 08$a9781760464615 311 08$a1760464619 330 $aThis is a trilingual dictionary of Vure?s, with meanings provided in both English and Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu. Vure?s is an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu. The dictionary is a companion volume to A Grammar of Vure?s, Vanuatu (Malau 2016). There is no established tradition of writing in Vure?s and most speakers are not literate in their own language. This dictionary is intended to have a dual purpose: to support the learning of literacy skills in the Vure?s community, and as a reference work for linguists. There are four parts to the dictionary. The main part is the most comprehensive and provides the English and Bislama definitions of Vure?s words, as well as example sentences for many of the entries, additional encyclopaedic information, scientific names for identified species, lexical relations, and etymological information for some entries. The dictionary contains approximately 3,500 headwords and has a strong emphasis on flora and fauna with close to a third of the entries belonging to these semantic domains. The dictionary has benefited from collaboration with a marine biologist and botanists, who have provided scientific identifications for named species. The main dictionary is followed by English-Vure?s and Bislama-Vure?s finderlists. The final part of the dictionary is a thesaurus, in which Vure?s words are grouped according to semantic categories. The thesaurus has been included primarily so that it can be used to support teaching of literacy skills and cultural knowledge within the community. 606 $aBilingual & multilingual dictionaries$2bicssc 606 $alinguistics$2bicssc 606 $aThesauri$2bicssc 610 $aBislama 610 $aDictionary 610 $alinguistics 610 $aMelanesia 610 $aPacific 610 $athesaurus 610 $aVanua Lava 610 $aVanuatu 610 $aVure?s 615 7$aBilingual & multilingual dictionaries 615 7$alinguistics 615 7$aThesauri 700 $aMalau$b Catriona$01038305 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910947814803321 996 $aA Dictionary of Vurės, Vanuatu$92586058 997 $aUNINA