Author: COWAN, H.K.J.
Title: Voorlopige resultaten van een ambtelijk Taalonderzoek in Nieuw-Guinea. [Eerste druk/first edn.].
Description: ;s-Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1953. Large 8°. Original wrappers. 48pp. tables being comparative wordlists and glossaries of local dialects, 2 full-page sketch-maps, of which one with extensive legenda at tail, english summary, table of contents. Preliminary report , being an attempt to analyze the linguistic material compiled in a number of manuscript vocabularies by civil servants and native school-teachers in Netherlands New Guinea during the years 1947-49, and the reby to arrive at a tentative classification of the languages in question as Austronesian or Non-Austronesian (Papuan).Following districts are involved: Sarmi (north of Hollandia city), Geelvinckbay, Vogelkop region, Southweatern Coast, Raja-Empat Island group. results of civil-service linguistic research on New Guinea. Still of great value. Fine copy.

Keywords: netherlands new guinea austronesian papuan oceania language linguistics research science report history sarmi geelvinck bay hollandia colonialism