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Journal articles on the topic "Polynesia – Languages"

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Wilson, William H., Paul A. Geraghty, and Lex A. J. Thomson. "Irregular sporadic sound change and East Polynesian origins: A response to Davletshin (2023)." Waka Kuaka | The Journal of the Polynesian Society 133, no. 4 (2024): 415–54. https://doi.org/10.15286/jps.133.3.415-454.

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The origins and timing of human settlement of East Polynesia are important questions for both academics and contemporary communities of that area. Linguistic innovations exclusively shared by East Polynesian languages with Northern Polynesian Outlier languages indicate that the East Polynesians originated late in prehistory from the Northern Polynesian Outliers, a proposal known as the Northern Outlier–East Polynesian (NO-EPn) hypothesis. In the December 2023 issue of this journal, a linguistic argument was made by Albert Davletshin that East Polynesia was settled from West Polynesia through t
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Moyrand, Alain. "Can the Polynesian Languages be Used in the Proceedings of the Assembly of French Polynesia?" Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 42, no. 2 (2011): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v42i2.5132.

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In 2010 the European Court of Human Rights rejected a petition relating to the right to use a Polynesian language in the Assembly of French Polynesia. This article considers the relationship between the French Constitution and the Organic Law, relating to the status of French Polynesia, and the use of languages other than French in the proceedings of the Assembly of French Polynesia. The consequences of case law for the use of a Polynesian language in the Assembly of French Polynesia are also examined. The article concludes is that there is no right to use a Polynesian language in the French P
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McCoy, Mark D., Caroline Cervera, Mara A. Mulrooney, Andrew McAlister, and Patrick V. Kirch. "Obsidian and volcanic glass artifact evidence for long-distance voyaging to the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia." Quaternary Research 98 (June 10, 2020): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.38.

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AbstractReconstructing routes of ancient long-distance voyaging, long a topic of speculation, has become possible thanks to advances in the geochemical sourcing of archaeological artifacts. Of particular interest are islands classified as Polynesian Outliers, where people speak Polynesian languages and have distinctly Polynesian cultural traits, but are located within the Melanesian or Micronesian cultural areas. While the classification of these groups as Polynesian is not in dispute, the material evidence for the movement between Polynesia and the Polynesian Outliers is exceedingly rare, unc
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Thomson, Lex A. J., Paul A. Geraghty, and William H. Wilson. "Hawaiian seascapes and landscapes: reconstructing elements of a Polynesian ecological knowledge system." Journal of the Polynesian Society 129, no. 4 (2020): 407–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15286/jps.129.4.407-446.

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Kaute and its derivatives koute, ʻoute and ʻaute are Polynesian names for a red-flowered Hibiscus. Since its first botanical collection on Tahiti by Banks and Solander (1769), this hibiscus has been referred to as H. rosa-sinensis L. and assumed to have been introduced by the bearers of the archaeological culture known as Lapita. Lapita people settled West Polynesia around 2800 BP and spoke a language derived from Proto-Oceanic, the common ancestor of almost all the Austronesian languages of Island Melanesia and Micronesia as well as Polynesia. However, whereas Proto-Oceanic names can be recon
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Jones, Terry L., and Kathryn A. Klar. "Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California." American Antiquity 70, no. 3 (2005): 457–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40035309.

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While the prevailing theoretical orthodoxy of North American archaeology overwhelmingly discourages consideration of transoceanic cultural diffusion, linguistic and archaeological evidence appear to indicate at least one instance of direct cultural contact between Polynesia and southern California during the prehistoric era. Three words used to refer to boats - including the distinctive sewn-plank canoe used by Chumashan and Gabrielino speakers of the southern California coast - are odd by the phonotactic and morphological standards of their languages and appear to correlate with Proto-Central
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Malogne-Fer, Gwendoline. "Les cultes de langues anglaise et française dans les Églises protestantes de Polynésie: intégration des “jeunes” ou pluralisation religieuse?" Social Compass 56, no. 2 (2009): 249–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768609103360.

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The author deals with the creation of forms of worship in the English and French languages (in New Zealand and Tahiti, respectively) within the so-called “historical” Protestant churches established in Polynesia from the 19th century. These forms of worship were officially designed to attract young children, who no longer speak Polynesian languages, but in practice they serve as testing grounds for new ways of organising and celebrating the religion that come closer to the Evangelical and Pentecostal style. The aim is to show how the issue of language, which has created a generation gap, refle
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Debène, Marc. "Les Langues de Polynésie Française et la Constitution: Liberté, Egalité, Identité." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 42, no. 2 (2011): 307. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v42i2.5131.

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The languages in use in French Polynesia alongside French are a matter of cultural and current political concern. For France it is a constitutional issue. Professor Debène provides the background to, and a close analysis of, the issue. Given the daily use of Tahitian languages with French in French Polynesia, one solution to these concerns is to do nothing. Another solution – the one here proposed – is to amend art 74 of the French Constitution to provide specifically for the use in overseas countries of both French and other languages. This would guarantee language freedom and well-organised
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Koller, Eve, and Malayah Thompson. "The Representation of Indigenous Languages of Oceania in Academic Publications." Publications 9, no. 2 (2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications9020020.

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Of the estimated 7117 languages in the world, approximately 1500 (21%) are indigenous to the Pacific. Despite composing approximately one-fourth of the world’s linguistic diversity, the representation of these languages in academic publication is scant, even in periodicals focused on Pacific Island studies. We investigated 34 periodicals that focus on research in Oceania. We report on (1) journal names; (2) how many are currently in circulation; (3) how many accept submissions in Indigenous Pacific languages; (4) what percent of the most recent articles were actually in Indigenous languages of
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Vernaudon, Jacques. "Linguistic Ideologies: Teaching Oceanic Languages in French Polynesia and New Caledonia." Contemporary Pacific 27, no. 2 (2015): 433–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cp.2015.0048.

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Blust, Robert. "The Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal." Annual Review of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2019): 417–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-012440.

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The Austronesian language family is the second largest on Earth in number of languages, and was the largest in geographical extent before the European colonial expansions of the past five centuries. This alone makes the determination of its homeland a research question of the first order. There is now near-universal agreement among both linguists and archaeologists that the Austronesian expansion began from Taiwan, somewhat more than a millennium after it was settled by Neolithic rice and millet farmers from Southeast China. The first “long pause,” between the settlement of Taiwan and of the n
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polynesia – Languages"

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Meyer, David Francis. "Computationally-assisted analysis of early Tahitian oral poetry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5984.

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A computationally-assisted analysis was undertaken of Tahitian oral poetry transcribed in the early 19th century, with the aim of discovering its poetic organization. An automated pattern detection process attempted to recognize many of the organizational possibilities for poetry that have been documented in the literature, as well as be open to unanticipated varieties. Candidate patterns generated were subjected to several rounds of manual review. Some tasks that would have proved difficult to automate, such as the detection of semantic parallelism, were pursued fully manually. Two distinct v
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Clemens, Lauren Eby. "Prosodic Noun Incorporation and Verb-Initial Syntax." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070029.

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To date, no real consensus has emerged among syntacticians about how to derive verb-initial order (V1); but the two main approaches, \(V^0\)-raising and VP-raising, receive particularly widespread support in the literature. The syntax of Niuean pseudo noun incorporation (PNI) has played an important role in the propagation of the VP-raising analysis (Massam 2001), especially for VSO languages and languages with a VSO option. In this thesis, I present an analysis of the prosody of Niuean PNI and show that the PNI verb and incorporated argument form a prosodic constituent. While this result is c
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Marck, Jeff. "Polynesian language and culture history." Phd thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144462.

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Carroll, Diana June. "William Marsden and his Malayo-Polynesian legacy." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109582.

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William Marsden (1754-1836) exercised a strong influence on the study of island Southeast Asia. After early experience in Sumatra, he returned to England in December 1779. His journal publications quickly established him among the intellectual elite. In 1783 some months before the publication of the History of Sumatra Marsden was elected to the Royal Society. Between 1795 and 1807 he was a high-ranking civil servant at the Admiralty. His scholarly life was thus neatly divided into an eighteenth century and an early nineteenth century period. Inspired and informed by the publication of Co
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Olesen, Aslak Vaag. "A grammar of the Manihiki language." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1418252.

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Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>This thesis describes the grammar of the language spoken on the two small atolls of Manihiki and Rakahanga in the Northern Group of the Cook Islands. The language is a Polynesian language belonging to the Eastern Polynesian subgroup and is closely related to neighbouring languages such as Tongarevan and Rarotongan. The work is the first ever reasonably thorough description of this language, and is based on a number of video recordings, collected during a total of approximately 12 months of fieldwork. The fieldwork was split into several differ
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Alofaituli, Brian. "Language Development Curriculum within the Samoan Congregational Churches in the Diaspora." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21090.

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Love, Susan Betty. "Tahitian French: the vernacular French of the Society Islands, French Polynesia. A study in language contact and variation." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12628.

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The study oflanguage contact has expanded and consolidated over recent years, with theoretical approaches moving beyond a traditional pidgin and creole classification to encompass a wider variety of languages from a variety of contact situations. Studies of migrant language, mixed and restructured varieties and new vernaculars have contributed to a growing understanding of language contact and language change, and to a growing number of labels for the new varieties. This study examines one such variety, the French spoken by the Polynesians of the Society Islands, French Polynesia. It is
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Williams, Ronald Clayton. "ʻOnipaʻa ka ʻoiaʻiʻo hearing voices : long ignored indigenous-language testimony challenges the current historiography of Hawaiʻi Nei". Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20822.

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Matisoo-Smith, Lisa. "No hea te kiore : MtDNA variation in Rattus exulans : a model for human colonisation and contact in prehistoric Polynesia." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/597.

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Phylogenetic reconstruction, originally developed for biological systematics, is a tool which is increasingly being used for anthropological studies addressing the problems of population origins and settlement patterns. Given the nature of the phylogenetic model, it is expected that phylogenetic analyses only work well on populations that have stopped sharing biological information. This is particularly pertinent when looking at phylogenies of Pacific populations. This thesis presents a unique biological approach to the study of human settlement and population mobility in Polynesia, focusing o
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Quick, Philip A. "A grammar of the Pendau language." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12536.

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This dissertation is a basic description of Pendau, a previously undescribed Western Malayo-Polynesian language in the Tomini-Tolitoli group found in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This description relies heavily on natural language data for its documentation. Most of the description covers concerns in the typological functional framework which also provides a means to organize the data. Chapter 1 gives a brief ethnographic background and introduces the linguistic context and background to Pendau. Very little had been known about Pendau until this current research. Chapter 2 describes the phonet
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Books on the topic "Polynesia – Languages"

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John, Williams. A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands: With remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, traditions and usages of the inhabitants. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Hunt, Goodenough Ward, ed. Prehistoric settlement of the Pacific. American Philosophical Society, 1996.

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Schuhmacher, W. Wilfried. The linguistic aspect of Thor Heyerdahl's theory. C. Winter, 1989.

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Marck, Jeffrey C. Topics in Polynesian language and culture history. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2000.

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Næss, Åshild. Pileni. Lincom Europa, 2000.

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Vance, Mary Lynn Zink. Gauguin's Polynesian pantheon as a visual language. University Microfilms International, 1990.

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Hughes, H. G. A. Polynesian language studies since 1945 and tomorrow. Gwasg Gwenffrwd, 1992.

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Tsukamoto, Akihisa. Forschungen über die Sprachen der Inseln zwischen Tonga und Saamoa. Lit, 1994.

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Hooper, Robin. Tokelauan. Lincom Europa, 1996.

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Even, Hovdhaugen, ed. A Handbook of the Tokelaulanguage. Norwegian University Press, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Polynesia – Languages"

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Walworth, Mary. "Eastern Polynesia." In The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351109154-28.

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Sari, Rika Purnama, I. Nyoman Kardana, I. Wayan Budiarta, and Rahmat Gaho. "Phonemes /mb/ and /kh/ on the Syllable Pattern of ‘kv’ of South Nias Language: A Western Malayo-Polynesian Group of Austronesian Language." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Student Conference on Linguistics (ISCL 2022). Atlantis Press SARL, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-014-5_25.

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Dawson, Gowan, Marwa Elshakry, Bernard Lightman, and Sujit Sivasundaram. "John Crawfurd, 'On the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and Races', Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, 1 (1848), pp. 330–8, 356–63, 373–4." In Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003552741-17.

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Spriggs, Matthew J. T. "What is southeast Asian about Lapita?" In Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals. Oxford University PressOxford, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198523185.003.0022.

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Abstract The linkage between the spread of the Lapita cultural complex from Melanesia into western Polynesia, and the spread of Austronesian languages was first sug gested in the 1970s (Shutler and Marek 1975; Bellwood 1978). That this spread was linked to a dispersal of Mongoloid peoples out of Asia, through southeast Asia into Polynesia was explicit in these formulations. Indeed, an ultimately Asian origin for Polynesians was postulated in the European voyages of explora tion to the Pacific in the eighteenth century (Cook 1784, Vol. III, p. 125). The foundations of Polynesian languages and c
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Serjeantson, Susan W., and X. Gao. "The genetic prehistory of Australia and Oceania: new insights from DNA analyses." In Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals. Oxford University PressOxford, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198523185.003.0021.

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Abstract The origins of the Polynesians remain a matter for debate. Some conclude Polynesians evolved out of Melanesia (e.g. Allen and White 1989; Houghton 1991), mainly because the Bismarck Archipelago region near Rabaul (Fig. 21.1) has been suggested as a source of Lapita or Polynesian culture (Spriggs 1985). Others suggest a substantial Melanesian contribution on the basis of the high fre quency (15%) of a Melanesian-specific alpha-globin deletion in eastern Polynesia (Hill et al. 1985). HLA class I genetic analyses have shown that the Polynesian repertoire can be derived from the east Asia
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Smith, Alexander D. "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian." In The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0002.

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Abstract This chapter situates the Malayo-Polynesian (MP) languages within the wider Austronesian language family and their development from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP). It focuses on the historical development and interrelatedness of the MP languages of Asia and Madagascar as well as two languages spoken in Micronesia, Chamorro, and Palauan. A history of scholarship on MP subgrouping is given, along with more recent developments which are beginning to reshape standard models of MP subgrouping. It also discusses the reconstruction of PMP, the hypothetical common ancestor language from which
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"POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES." In Hawaiian Language. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16t66f3.7.

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"Introduction." In The Ocean on Fire. Duke University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478059059-001.

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In the mad rush toward extinction of life that characterizes the past seventy-five years, Oceania has always been on the front lines. After having been used as laboratories on which to experiment with radioactive weapons of mass destruction, these islands are now being used by overindustrialized countries as carbon dumping-sites. Yet despite the repeated assaults of nuclear colonialism and carbon imperialism, Pacific peoples continue to asserting the vitality of Pacific cultures and languages in the ever-regenerating Pacific seascape. This introduction explores Pacific (post)apocalyptic storie
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Clemens, Lauren, and Diane Massam. "Polynesian languages and their contributions to theoretical linguistics." In Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860839.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the volume on Polynesian syntax and its interfaces. It presents an overview of the Polynesian language family and outlines the key typological features of the languages. The history of research on Polynesian languages is reviewed, with a focus on modern research in theoretical syntax and semantics. This historical overview is followed by a summary of each chapter in the volume, in which the connecting theoretical issues are highlighted.
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Zobel, Erik. "Chamorro." In The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0038.

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Abstract This chapter is about Chamorro, a non-Oceanic Malayo-Polynesian outlier language spoken on the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific. Unlike the languages of the Oceanic subgroup to which all but two languages in the Pacific belong, Chamorro is lexically, phonologically and morphologically quite conservative. Unusual features include possessive classifiers and grammatical voice selection based on a person-animacy hierarchy. Its subgrouping among the Malayo-Polynesian languages is still debated. It is generally agreed that it is not closely related to the languages of the Philippines,
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Conference papers on the topic "Polynesia – Languages"

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Cablitz, Gaby, Jacquelijn Ringersma, and Marc Kemps-Snijders. "Visualizing endangered indigenous languages of French Polynesia with LEXUS." In 2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iv.2007.134.

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Waipara, Zak. "Ka mua, ka muri: Navigating the future of design education by drawing upon indigenous frameworks." In Link Symposium 2020 Practice-oriented research in Design. AUT Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/lsa.4.

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We have not yet emerged into a post-COVID world. The future is fluid and unknown. As the Academy morphs under pressure, as design practitioners and educators attempt to respond to the shifting world – in the M?ori language, Te Ao Hurihuri – how might we manage such changes? There is an indigenous precedent of drawing upon the past to assist with present and future states – as the proverb ka mua ka muri indicates, ‘travelling backwards into the future,’ viewing the past spread out behind us, as we move into the unknown. Indigenous academics often draw inspiration from extant traditional viewpoi
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