Gilbertese Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

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• - Brief description of Gilbertese.
  
• - Compiled by Trussel and Groves, based on the works of Bingham, Sabatier and Oliva.
  
• - Data from the first known description of Gilbertese by Horatio Emmons Hale in 1846. Includes extensive vocabulary list, orthography, phonemic inventory and grapheme distribution.
  
• - Vocabulary and translations into English and French collected in 1847.
  
• - Research paper presenting evidence for ternary metrical constituents in Gilbertese with the first known in-depth study of prosody in a Micronesian language and a constraint-based analysis of Gilbertese prosody in particular.
  
• - Kiribati language lessons based on the Peace Corps handbook