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THE learned authors, have earned the thanks of linguistic students by issuing, in a separate form, this important contribution to a better knowledge of the Melanesian and Papuan languages, which was first published in the eighth volume of the Philological Transactions of the Royal Saxon Scientific Institute. It forms the first instalment of a series of papers intended to supplement the comprehensive and well-known treatise of H. C. von der Gabelentz, published at Leipzig in 1860 and 1873. To the languages dealt with in that work are now added two others: that of Mafór (Núfór), Geelvinck Bay, and a dialect current on the Astrolabe Bay Coast, North-East New Guinea, from materials supplied by Van Hasselt and Miklucho-Maclay respectively. To these notices are added the Papuan idioms, spoken in the islands of Errúb and Maer, Torres Strait, and in Segaar Bay, near Quer Gulf, South-West Coast of New Guinea, the former by Herr Grutse, the latter from data supplied by H. Strausch to the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, viii., pp. 405–18.
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"Beiträge zur Kentniss der Melanesischen, Mikronesischen und Papuanischen Sprachen," von G. von der Gabelentz und A. B. Meyer . (Leipzig, 1882.)
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KEANE, A. Malayo-Polynesian Linguistics 1 . Nature 26, 225–226 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026225a0
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