Tolain.
/tɒˈlʌɪ/ 1. An Austronesian language spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula in north-east New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, and adopted widely by missions throughout New Britain and New Ireland. Also known as Kuanua and Tuna.
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Moluccas1619
Formosan1704
Sunda1816
Melanesian1849
Sundanese1849
Lifu1852
Bajau1869
Ambonese1875
Acehnese1882
Kiriwinian1916
Tolai1962
Moluccan1977
1962 Oceanic Linguistics 1 47 To date language learning materials have been completed for the Administration in two languages: Tolai of the Gazelle Peninsula on New Britain, and Kuman of the Chimbu area in the Eastern Highlands.
1976 Language 52 639 Tolai, the major Austronesian language contributing to Tok Pisin, also uses ia as one form of the 3sg. pronoun.
1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 352 The phonetic similarities between English and Tolai are entirely accidental.
2. collective plural. A people or group of peoples inhabiting the Peninsula.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Papua and New Guinea > [noun]
Massim1894
Motu1894
Papuo-Melanesian1909
Iatmul1932
Tchambuli1935
Tolai1963
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Papua and New Guinea > [adjective]
Motu1878
Massim1896
Tchambuli1935
Tolai1963
1963 Oceania 33 182 The use of the term ‘Tolai’ as a group name is a recent innovation; in the past there was no single name for the various communities living on the Gazelle Peninsula.
Compounds
General attributive.
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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
1963 Oceania 33 184 The Tolai people of the Rabaul District of New Britain (..linguistically homogeneous).
1971 Current Trends in Linguistics 8 1011 Solomon Islands pidgin remained free from German influence and the influence of the Tolai language of the Rabaul area.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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