J. Graham Miller - Tongoan dictionary and notes on other Vanuatu languages (Central Islands), between 1941 and 1973

PMB 1028

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

441096

Microfilm : PMB 1028

microfilm reel 35 mm

Dr and Mrs Miller were missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand on the Island of Tongoa in Vanuatu from 1941 to 1947 when Miller became principal of the Tangoa Teachers Training Institute on Santo Island. In 1952 the Millers took a parish in Auckland, New Zealand, returning to Tangoa in 1971 to set up the Presbyterian Bible College. They left the islands in 1973

The material on this reel is presented in two parts: Part 1, The Tongaon Dictionary and Part II, Languages of the Central Islands. The dictionary, which is incomplete, was compiled during field service (1941-1971). Miller describes the dictionary as colloquial rather than eccesiastical, making use of material produced by the Reverends Oscat Michelson and Peter Milne, missionaries in the New Hebrides in the late 1800s. Much of the explanatory material in the dictionary is in Tongoan. Part II begins with a grammar and word list for the Makatea language (Polynesian) of Emae and continues with brief grammars of four of the seven dialects of Efatese identified by Miller: Lelepa (Efate); Erakor (Efate); Emau (Efatese) and Epau-Fuari (Eastern Efatese). Miller has provided a detailed introduction to the dictionary and to each of the grammars in Part II

English, Tongan

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1028
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held in private ownership