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Yonggom Wambon, a Dumut language of West Papua: Annotated Texts with Grammar and Vocabulary

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dc.contributor.authorvan den Heuvel, Wilco
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-27T02:26:06Z
dc.date.available2026-02-27T02:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-27
dc.descriptionIn this book, the author, Wilco van den Heuvel, intends to make Drabbe’s 1959 description of (Yonggom) Wambon available to a wider scientific public. As such, the book is in line with an earlier reanalysis by the same author of Drabbe’s description of Aghu (1957), which was published in 2016. In only 45 pages (!), Drabbe managed to present an incredible amount of Yonggom Wambon language data. The current work takes over 400 pages for their re-representation and reanalysis, and includes a 500-item wordlist that Drabbe had written a few years earlier. This book attempts both to increase our understanding of the peculiarities of this individual language, and to contribute to our understanding of the past and present of this still very under-documented part of our globe. An area where—as Drabbe foresaw—minority languages are disappearing, giving way to a common (national) language. The author expresses his gratefulness to Drabbe, for having unravelled some of the complexities of the languages in this area, which, in Drabbe’s words, form ‘an eldorado for the practitioners of general linguistics’, ‘a labyrinth without escape for missionaries’, and—in the author’s words— ‘offer a unique and highly valuable perspective on specific communities in a specific space and time’.
dc.format.extent478 pages
dc.identifier.isbn9781760466732
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733806695
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherANU Pressen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofYonggom Wambon, a Dumut language of West Papua: Annotated Texts with Grammar and Vocabulary
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsia-Pacific Linguistics
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dc.rightsUnless stated otherwise, the author retains copyright to their work while ANU Press retains exclusive worldwide rights for the distribution of the book. From 2018, the majority of ANU Press titles are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-ND; creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which broadens the ways in which works can be used and distributed. Please refer to the copyright page of each book for more information on a specific title’s copyright licensing.en_AU
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_AU
dc.source.urihttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/asia-pacific-linguistics/yonggom-wambon
dc.subjectYonggom Wambon
dc.subjectDrabbe
dc.subjectWest Papua
dc.subjectDumut language
dc.titleYonggom Wambon, a Dumut language of West Papua: Annotated Texts with Grammar and Vocabulary
dc.typeBook
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access via publisher websiteen_AU
dspace.entity.typePublication
local.identifier.doi10.22459/YW.2025
local.publisher.urlhttps://press.anu.edu.au/en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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