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Samoan Word Book and Audio CD.  Bess Press.  112 pages.  Illustrations.

The book features 200-400 illustrated introductory vocabulary words, a pronunciation guide, and glossaries.  The categories which include family, home, school, the body, clothing, food, opposites, numbers, nature, and time, accurately portray the  Samoan culture as well as teach basic vocabulary. 

   An Audio CD recorded by a native speaker is included.  Recommended for ages 4-8, but adults will also find it invaluable as a first language primer.

BESS

$28.95
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Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Course Book & Cassette Tape.  Pasifika Press.  Hawaii Press.  144 pages.  Includes illustrations and an audio-cassette tape.  Gagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use, it features: ~ Out of Print - Discontinued ~

•   A methodical approach suitable for all ages

•   An emphasis on patterns of speech and communication
        through practice and examples

•   Over 950 exercises to reinforce comprehension

•   Oral skills supplemented by cassette

•   An introduction to the wider culture of "fa`asamoa"
        through photographs

PASI
UHAW

$46.95
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Samoan Proverbial Expressions.  University of Hawaii Press.  140 pages.  In the field of rhetoric the Samoans have shown both skill and artistry. The most frequent used and best beloved embellishment of the language to which the orator resorts, is the Muagagana or alaga`upu. They are proverbial expressions, mostly in elliptically mutilated form, taken from the mythology, the history and the everyday lives of the Samoan people and serve to illustrate their opinions and utterances.

Includes the following topics:

•   Fishing

•   Hunting

•   Manual Work Inside and Outside the House

•   Food and its Preparation

•   Games, Dances and Feasts

•   Land and Sea Travel

•   Miscellaneous

UHAW

$16.95
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Samoan Language Dictionary

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Samoan Language Dictionary.  University of Hawaii Press.  466 pages.  Samoan-English, English-Samoan text.  This dictionary is difficult to obtain.  We have two copies in stock.  Softcover.

Customer's Comment:
  "I have personally used this book many times at work to find the meaning of Samoan words.  It is written very well, with all of the diacritical marks - including the okina (glottal stop) and kahako (macron), to allow for correct pronunciation.  The book is beautifully bound in a neat hard cover, with burgundy red as the main color, and with a yellow flower motif running down the side, and a yellow title line"

UHAW

$69.95
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Pacific Languages: An Introduction.  University of Hawaii Press.  384 pages.  Includes illustrations and maps. 
Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided.
In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of Pidgin and Creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information.
   Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.

UHAW

$39.95
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