Philip Delaporte

Philip Adam Delaporte was a reverend, linguist and grammairien German born with the the United States and sent in a Protestant mission to Nauru between 1899 and 1917.

Biography

Philip Delaporte is born in the United States.

In 1899, coming from Hawaii via Kosrae, it is sent to Nauru with all its family by the Central Union Church off Honolulu . It takes again the Protestant mission installed in Nauru since ten year by Tabuia, a Pasteur Gilbertin, and in particular one of both school S of the island, the other being that of the catholic mission .

Delaporte and his wife study the Nauruan then and translate many texts (the Bible, works of Catéchisme and history of the Christian church and schoolbooks) in this language.

It sets out again of Nauru with its family in 1917 when the American mission is replaced by a British mission of the London Missionary Society .

Dictionary German-nauruan

In 1907, Delaporte publishes its Dictionnaire of pocket German-nauruan ( Taschenwörterbuch Deutsch-Nauruisch ) containing 65 pages devoted to the words and a dozen with the expressions, the whole classified in the alphabetical order of the language German E. The dictionary contains approximately: 1650 German words translated into nauruan, often by expressions or synonyms. Only: 1300 words nauruans are in the dictionary. The work, with the format pocket, measurement 10,5 by 14 centimetres.

The 32 following characters form the orthography of the words of the dictionary:

The pronunciation of the letters is not specified and the reader must thus guess it.

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References

  • Dictionary English-nauruan of Philip Delaporte

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