Download or read book A Short Grammar of Inanwatan, an Endangered Language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia written by Lourens de Vries and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short grammar documents the Inanwatan language, an endangered language of the Bird's Head of West Papua (Indonesia). It deals with major patterns of phonology, morphology and syntax of Inanwatan. It also contains a vocabulary, extensive texts and materials from a linguistic survey of the Inanwatan district. The introductory chapter contains a discussion of the sociolinguistic and historical context of the Inanwatan language. Special emphasis is given to the field linguistic problems that arise from describing a Papuan language in an advanced stage of generational erosion and on the basis of data in which Malay and Malayicised vernacular are often very hard to tell apart.