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Download or read book Trukese-English Dictionary written by Ward Hunt Goodenough and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1980 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three closely related languages are spoken in Truk State, Federated States of Micronesia: Trukese, Mortlockese, and Puluwatese. Trukese has by far the largest number of of speakers in the Truk state. Building on the dictionary by Samuel H. Elbert, published in 1947, this dictionary representes the Trukese language as it is spoken in the lagoon islands of Truk. It also includes an introduction which covers: the languages of Truk; the alphabet; the format of an entry; morphology; syntax; and bibliography. Maps and tables.