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This is good note taking, but when it comes to the article I recommend not including all these sections and instead focusing just on certain ones that you understand better in the book.

"A Grammar of the Kiwai Language, Fly Delta, Papua with a Kiwai Vocabulary"

Preface Notes


 * "Daudai" language was the language of the island of Kiwai
 * Rev. E. Baster Riley began learning the language in 1902
 * 1907: published a small school book
 * 1928: died

Introduction


 * Kiwai
 * Long/low island
 * Located on the eastern side of the southern entrance to the delta of the Fly River, Papua
 * Origin? = unknown
 * First occurred in a list of place names in Dowdee (i.e Daudai)
 * Jukes obtained from natives of Erub 1842-846
 * "Daudai" is a name (given) from the Torres Straits islanders to the mainland of New Guinea
 * Dialectsare spoken across the Fly Delta from the mainland (Binature River) to deltas of the Bamu and Turama Rivers & eastern mainland of the Papuan Gulf at the Gama and Era Rivers
 * six dialects are commonly used/known
 * others do exist
 * Six Dialects
 * Tureture
 * Kiwai
 * Domori
 * Wabuda
 * Sisiami
 * Goaribari
 * Tureture
 * by the mouth of the Binature River
 * Kiwai
 * in the villages of Kiwai Island
 * has been adopted as the standard language for mission purposes in the Delta (By London Missionary Society)
 * Domori
 * island in the Fly Delta northwest of Kiwai
 * Wabuda
 * island between the eastern mouth of the Fly and Bamu Delta
 * Sisiami
 * village on the Dibiri branch of the Bamu Delta
 * Goaribari
 * mouth of the Bamu Delta
 * Kiwai Dialects are different in terms of vocabulary
 * also grammar (but not as much)
 * however still of the same linguistic group
 * *** Refer to page 14 for table of differences between 5 languages and Kiwai ***
 * Kiwai Alphabet
 * 17 letters
 * represent sounds
 * Vowels: a, e, i, o, u
 * Diphthongs: ai, au
 * Semivowel: w
 * Consonants:
 * velar: k, g
 * dental: t, d, n
 * labial: p, b, m
 * ??? sibilant: s
 * ??? spirant: v
 * liquid: r
 * Pronunciation