Search Results for: Language Diversity In The Pacific

The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich

Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerou

The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represe

In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focus

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