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Steiner, Erich. 2000. The lord's prayer in Erromangan: literacy and translation in a Vanuatu language (Languages of the World 13). Munich: Lincom Europa. 24 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Source language
Target language
Main ISBN
3-89586-973-2

Abstract

Erromangan, an Oceanic language of southern Vanuatu, has a written literature that until recently was restricted exclusively to materials relating to recently introduced Christianity. This literature is entirely translated, with the materials written by European missionaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In many respects, these translations are structurally deviant to the point where intelligibility is sometimes impaired.
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