Otto Meyer, "Wörterbuch der Tuna-Sprache", 1921, v + 621 pp.

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Box 5 (MS 10422)

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File 31

Content Summary:

Tolai-German Dictionary by P. Otto Meyer, MSC.Photocopy of a typescript that (in 1986) was in the possession of Father Sebastian Schwaiger (Vunapope Catholic Mission, Papua New Guinea).The Tolai language has also sometimes been referred to as Kuanua or Tuna.) Meyer was a German missionary stationed on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, in the early twentieth century. He also wrote a reader in the Tolai language "A buk na niluluk, a buk ikilik ai ra umana bul a qunantuna" held in the National Library collection at BIB:2013276

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Academic
Pacific

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