Series INSAWU - Indonesia - Lesser Sunda Islands - Sawu Island
Sawu language and dialects


Date Rangec. 1973
Quantity0.23 cm, 9 items
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series contains material from Sawu Island (in the Lesser Sunda Islands). It focuses on the local languages of Sawu and Hawu, and contains handwritten notes on grammar, diachronic development of the language, and pronunciation by Capell, comparative vocabulary lists (some possibly written and annotated by Capell), and local story texts.

The Nusa Tenggara, or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of the Malay Archipelago. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands.

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Sunda_Islands
See also: External site http://www.indo.com/indonesia/lesser.html

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Inventory Listing

AC2-INSAWU101 Sawu. Notes on grammar, sound rules, numerals and nouns.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. Based on H. Kern's Sawuneasche Bijdrgen Grammatische Heidung BTLVS, 5/vii-DL 41, 1892. Versp. Gesch. 6:187-195. In Capell's hand. Some shorthand notes.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU101
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU101 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU102 A Vocab…Savoo.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. Possibly transcribed by Capell. Savu-English.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU102
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU102 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU103 Li Hawu. The language of Sawu Island, Indonesia.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. By A. Capell (his hand). He says that this is the name known to native speakers and that it is a non-Austronesian structure overlaid with an Austronesian vocabulary.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU103
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU103 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU104 100 word English-Hawu vocabulary.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU104
Date range no date    Quantity 0.02 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU104 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU105 Sawu story text.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. Transcribed from H. Bastian Indonesien II, 1885. Mündlich von Rudels, by Capell (his hand). Partly in short hand, together with text from Jonker's Sawunesche Vertaling, BTLV, 1904, pp. 282. The latter has 53 Sawu lines with an interlinear gloss[ary] in German.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU105
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU105 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU106 Sawu grammatical patterns.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. Notes in Capell's hand. [Li Hawu].

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU106
Date range no date    Quantity 0.01 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU106 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU107 Additional Sawu vocabulary.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript. Not alphabetical, plus notes on suffixes. In Capell's hand.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU107
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU107 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU108 Sawu. Collection or notes on grammar, dialects and the question of whether this language is Austronesian or non-Austronesian.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Manuscript.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU108
Date range ca 1973    Quantity 0.04 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU108 Series INSAWU
AC2-INSAWU109 Comparative 100-word vocabularies.
Sawu & dialects, Sawu I., Lesser Sundas, Indonesia.
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Typescript/manuscript. English-Abui (Alor I.)-Sawu-Numfor (N.W. Irian Jaya)-Windesi (Wandamen, N.W. Irian Jaya).

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-INSAWU109
Date range no date    Quantity 0.03 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier NSAWU109 Series INSAWU

Published by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,
Listed by Peter Newton, Austehc and PARADISEC
HTML edition Nicholas Thieberger
Updated 11 October 2006
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