Delaporte's Nauruan Dictionary (1907) A - C D - G H - O P - S T - Y The Rev. Ph. A. Delaporte, a German born American Protestant Missionary, was sent to Nauru with his family in November of 1899. They came from Hawaii via Kusaie under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sent by the Central Union Church of Honolulu.1 The mission had been started some ten ...

Nauruan Swadesh List Tri-Institutional Pacific Program Yale University Tri-Institutional Pacific Program Department of Anthropology Yale University Language: Nauruan Location: 26 miles South of the Equator & 163 East Recorder: Tamaiti Willie Star (handwritten: ) Date: 21st of March, 1954 Section 1. Basic Vocabulary (entire Swadesh test list) The most commonly used simple equivalent for each test ...

Nauruan-English Vocabulary from Solange Petit-Skinner's The Nauruans 1981. MacDuff Press, 110 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 Petit-Skinner's The Nauruans contains many examples of Nauruan vocabulary throughout the text, and in the appendices on fish names and reef channels. I have extracted these and arranged them into a Nauruan-English list. (It was not necessarily Dr. Petit-Skinner's ...