OLAC resources in and about the Usan language

ISO 639-3: wnu

The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language:

• Primary texts
• Lexical resources
• Language descriptions
• Other resources about the language
• Other resources in the language

Other known names and dialect names: Wanuma

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Primary texts

1. ONLINEGenesis. The Long Now Foundation. 1977. Ukarumpa, New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_wnu_gen-1
2. ONLINEStructures and their Functions in Usan (Papua New Guinea). Reesink, Ger P. 1987. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_wnu_vertxt-1
3. ONLINEUsan Wordlist, Madang Province, 1980. Reesink, Gerard P. 1980. SIL International. oai:sil.org:69713
4. ONLINEUsan Wordlist, Madang Province. Reesink, Gerard P. 2017. SIL International. oai:sil.org:69714

Lexical resources

1. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Usan. Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:wnu
2. ONLINEUsan Swadesh List. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_wnu_swadesh-1
3. ONLINEUsan Wordlist, Madang Province, 1980. Reesink, Gerard P. 1980. SIL International. oai:sil.org:69713
4. ONLINEUsan Wordlist, Madang Province. Reesink, Gerard P. 2017. SIL International. oai:sil.org:69714
5. ONLINEtransnewguinea.org Resources for Usan. Simon J. Greenhill (editor). 2022. transnewguinea.org (transnewguinea.org). oai:transnewguinea.org:wnu.739

Language descriptions

1. Structures and their functions in Usan : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Reesink, Ger P. 1987. Studies in language companion series ; v. 13. oai:gial.edu:25014
2. ONLINEGlottolog 4.7 Resources for Usan. n.a. 2022. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:usan1239
3. ONLINEPHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Usan. n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. oai:phoible.org:usan1239
4. ONLINEStructures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Reesink, Gerard P. 1987. Benjamins. oai:sil.org:22813
5. ONLINEUsan Organised Phonology Data. n.a. 2011. SIL International. oai:sil.org:42284
6. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Usan. n.a. 2022. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:usa
7. ONLINELAPSyD Online page for Usan. Maddieson, Ian. 2009. www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr. oai:www.lapsyd.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr:src268

Other resources about the language

1. ONLINEStructures and Their Functions in Usan: a Papuan Language of Papua New Guinea. Reesink, Ger P. 1987. John Benjamins. oai:refdb.wals.info:686
2. ONLINEStructures and their functions in Usan. Reesink, Ger P. 1984. WALS Online RefDB. oai:refdb.wals.info:4231
3. Surrey Person Syncretism Database. Baerman, Matthew. 2002. University of Surrey. oai:surrey.smg.surrey.ac.uk:personsyncretism
4. ONLINEUsan: a language of Papua New Guinea. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:wnu
5. ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Usan. Damir Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2017-09-27. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_wnu
6. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors. Payne, Doris L. 1990. SIL International. oai:sil.org:2787
7. ONLINE“Inner speech” in Papuan languages. Reesink, Gerard P. 1993. SIL International. oai:sil.org:22744
8. Domain-creating constructions in Papuan languages. Reesink, Gerard P. 1994. Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. oai:sil.org:22892
9. Mother tongue and Tok Pisin. Reesink, Gerard P. 1990. Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, John W. M. Verhaar (ed.). oai:sil.org:23097
10. On subordination in Usan and other Papuan languages. Reesink, Gerard P. 1983. Advances in functional grammar, Simon C. Dik (ed.). oai:sil.org:39283
11. Grammatical features of cohesion in Usan: Towards a text differential. Reesink, Gerard P. 1981. Summer Institute of Linguistics. oai:sil.org:39287
12. Qomon Qoan qei. n.a. 1986. SIL International. oai:sil.org:79621

Other resources in the language

1. ONLINEA typological study of reduplication as a morpho-semantic process : evidence from five language families (Bantu, Australian, Papuan, Austroasiatic and Malayo-Polynesian). Kiyomi, Setsuko. 1993. Pacific Collection at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Hamilton Library. oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:612846
2. ONLINEA comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Z'graggen, J. A. 1980. Pacific linguistics. Series D ; no. 31. oai:pacific.library.manoa.hawaii.edu:1933212

Other known names and dialect names: Wanuma

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