Series NSBBAIT - North Solomons (Bougainville) Province - South Bougainville Island
Baitsi - Ba: Gui (Papuan language)


Date Rangeno date
Quantity0.14 cm, 1 item
ProvenanceCapell, Arthur
Description

This series includes material from south Bougainville Island. It focuses on the Baitsi language. It includes an exercise book in where there are comparative vocabulary lists (English-Baitsi), grammatical notes on Baitsi, and texts in English translated line-by-line into Baitsi.

Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands and a province of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville and the adjacent island of Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons, and are ecologically and geographically, although not politically, considered part of the Solomon Islands. Buka, Bougainville, and most of the Solomons are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion.

For more information: External site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Island

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04  Bougainville, Buka and Offshore Islands - Regions and Languages


Inventory Listing

AC2-NSBBAIT101 All Schools Exercise Book.
Baitsi (Ba: Gui) Papuan language, South Bougainville Island, North Solomons/Bougainville province.
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Manuscript. In Capell's hand. Ba:gui (probably Baitsi). Some shorthand. Vocabulary and grammar, plus short texts.

Creator Capell, Arthur
Control AC2-NSBBAIT101
Date range no date    Quantity 0.14 cm, 1 folio
Inventory Identifier BBAIT101 Series NSBBAIT

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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