French dictionary
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Publication of Wallisian - French dictionary
A landmark publication by Pacific Linguistics, a publishing arm of the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, is the Tikisionalio Fakauuea-Fakafalani Dictionnaire Wallisien Francois, by Karl H. Rensch.
As Dr Rensch writes in his (French-language) introduction to the dictionary: “The language of Wallis belongs to the family of Polynesian languages.
It is related to Tongan. Wallisian
is spoken by 4500 people on Wallis Island, and by 12,000 immigrants in New Caledonia, The language of Futuna, the island which, with Wallis, forms the French overseas territory of ‘Wallis and Futuna , is different from Wallisian but not suffi ciently to create problems of mutual intelligibility. ”
The handsomely produced dictionary is available for SA3O plus postage, from the Depart ment of Linguistics, RSPS.
ANU. GPO Box 4, Canberra, 2601. Australia.