The Ndu language family (Sepik district, New Guinea)
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1962
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Laycock, Donald C
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This thesis is based on linguistic material
collected during fieldwork in the Sepik District,
Territory of New Guinea, during the period May 1959
to March 1960, Before my departure for the field
no one, least of all myself, had more than an outline
knowledge of what I might expect to find in the way
of languages and their internal relationships
throughout the Sepik District, Accordingly, fieldwork
was planned as a survey of the languages of a large,
geographically continuous segment of the Sepik River
basin, the area to be enlarged or reduced as time
and circumstances permitted.
When it became apparent that the most profitable
line of research was to concentrate on the large
interrelated group of languages clustered around the
Middle Sepik area, the survey plan was not abandoned,
but was modified to include, as far as possible, only
languages of the related group and those languages
which surrounded this group on the northern, western
and eastern sides - the southern side proving
impossible to visit. A few exceptions were made
because of prevailing circumstances. (First two paragraphs of Preface.)
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Ndu languages, linguistic, Territory of New Guinea, Sepik District
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