Lifun.adj.
/ˈliːfuː/ (Designating, of, or pertaining to) a Melanesian language spoken on Lifu Island.
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Moluccas1619
Formosan1704
Sunda1816
Melanesian1849
Sundanese1849
Lifu1852
Bajau1869
Ambonese1875
Acehnese1882
Kiriwinian1916
Tolai1962
Moluccan1977
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Austronesian languages
Formosan1650
Moluccan1700
Bugis1808
Tagalog1808
Murut1836
Indonesian1850
Lifu1852
Motuan1885
Buginese1897
Dusun1897
Pangasinan1904
Lifuan1917
Pilipino1936
Marshallese1945
Yami1953
Tolai1963
1852 A. Cheyne Descr. Islands W. Pacific Ocean 179 (heading) Vocabulary of the Lifu language.
1855 V. Lush Jrnl. 27 July (1971) 161 This little child, Lizzie, talks a little Nengone—a little Maori—a little Lifu—and a little English, and so is called the Polyglot Baby.
1858 J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. viii. 346 I am..printing..translations in Nengonè, Bauro, and Lifu.
1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 47 271 The first Lifu primer had a lesson: ‘Don't go out during public worship to..pick out and eat fleas’.
1952 Word 8 252 Every word in Lifu is stressed on the first syllable.
1971 A. G. Haudricourt in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics 8 380 In 1967 Tryon treated the syntax of Lifu in his thesis.
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