A Sketch Grammar of Pondi

This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branc...

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Main Author: Barlow, Russell (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: ANU Press 2020
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