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Dictionnaire de Mekeo

Layer: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
Link back to source:: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/PAMBU/DOC17
Type: Other

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Latitude: -8.3085
Longitude: 146.586
Start Date: 1933-08-08
End Date: 1933-08-08

Description

Father Gustave Desnoes, MSC, a Frenchman, was born in 1888. He went to Papua as a missionary in 1906 and returned to France in 1927 because of poor health. This dictionary was compiled from language notes made by more than a dozen priests. Fr. Desnoes compiled the dictionary and completed his transcription of the Mekeo dictionary in 1933 at La Betheline, Chateau Gombert. Typing of the manuscript was completed at Veifa'a in 1942. A dictionary in French of the Mekeo language of Papua, originally in 10 books and recopied in two volumes. Reel 1: Vol.1 - completed in 1933. Typed in 1941. Entries A - I Reel 2: Vol.2 - completed August 8, 1933. Typed in 1942. Entries K - U. The digitisation of these microfilms was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

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Source

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/PAMBU/DOC17

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