 In the four languages of the province * there is a wide speech-group of broad diffusion and of considerable complexity We find one element of unknown antiquity, a corpus of Polynesian speech summed at 16,000 vocables which have passed from the use of...  The Journal of the Polynesian Society - Page 165de Polynesian Society (N.Z.) - 1912Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | American Geographical Society of New York - 1913 - 1180 pages
...unknown antiquity, a corpus of Polynesian speech summed at 16,000 vocables, has passed from the use of others of the race. We find reason to consider this...this settlement was overlaid a migration of a later ProtoSamoan colony, refugees from Tongafiti tyranny, at a period, therefore, of probably the year 1250.... | |
 | William Churchill, Hippolyte Roussel - 1912 - 362 pages
...find reason to consider this due to a Proto-Samoan settlement of uncertain date, but very possibly coincident with the first arrival of that migration swarm within the central Pacific after its divaricated Melanesian traverse. Upon this settlement was overlaid a migration of a later Proto-Samoan... | |
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