Yonggom Wambon, a Dumut language of West Papua: Annotated Texts with Grammar and Vocabulary

2024/10/29 by Wilco van den Heuvel · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History #Philippine History and Culture #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

paper · doi:10.22459/yw.2025

openalex publication_date 2024/10/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

In this book, the author, Wilco van den Heuvel, intends to make Drabbe’s 1959 description of (Yonggom) Wambon available to a wider scientific public. As such, the book is in line with an earlier reanalysis by the same author of Drabbe’s description of Aghu (1957), which was published in 2016.

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• Our latest title presents a description of Yonggom Wambon, a Dumut language in Western New Guinea. It is based on material collected by the Dutch missionary Petrus Drabbe who worked on many language [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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