Notes on the Phonology of the Palau Language

1. Geography. The group of twenty-six small islands known as Palau (Palao, Pelew, or Balau) 1 lies to the West of the Carolines in the western Pacific at longitude 135 degrees East, and latitude five degrees North. About five hundred miles due West of the Palau group lies Mindanao, of the Philippine archipelago, and about 350 miles to the South the head of New Guinea. In 1899 Germany purchased the islands from Spain and since that time they have been considered a part of the Carolines. The population of the Palaus is, according to Fritz 2, about four thousand. 2. Bibliography.-Keate, George. An Account of the Pelewu Islands.... Comnposedfromn the Journal and communications of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers who, in Autgust 1783, were there shipwrecked in the Antelope. London 1788. (The work concludes with a brief Vocabulary of the Pelew Language in which the native words are spelled according to English rules of orthography, e. g., too [Walleser tu] 'banana', aeem [Wall. oim] five'. It was published in an anonymous French translation, Relation des lles Pelezv, in two volumes, 8vo, by Maradan, Paris, 1793, and in Spanish translation, Relaci6n de las islas Pelew, by the bookseller G6mez Fuentenebro, Madrid, 1805)

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• A Bibliography of the Philippine Languages. Part I

  Frank R Blake•Journal of the American Oriental…•1920

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