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  Tobian to English
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• Specialized Word Lists
  • Fish
    • Fish Dictionary by Robert E. Johannes
    • Tobian Fish List compiled from various sources
    • David Sapio's Tobian Fish Names
  • Plants & Medicines
    • Aunchalee Loscalzo's appendices to her dissertation—the data were collected in Echang and reflect a mixture of Tobian, Palauan, and English illness terms and plant names.
      • Appendix A: Tobian Illness Terms (pronounciations provided by Justin Andrew)
      • Appendix B: Botanical Pharmacopoeia of Echang Hamlet, Koror.
    • Plants in Chuuk and Echang by Aunchalee Loscalzo.
    • Preliminary list of plants commonly mentioned by Tobians as being medicinal by Aunchalee Loscalzo.
  • More Specialized Word Lists
    • Body Parts from Isauro Andrew
    • Canoe Parts from Isauro Andrew and Justin Andrew
    • Clans of Tobi from Isauro Andrew
    • Counting from Isauro Andrew
    • Directions from Sebastian Marino
    • Kin Terms
    • Solar Months & Lunar Months from Justin Andrew
    • 13 Word Lists by David Sapio
    • Weather from Isauro Andrew

Poems & Songs—

• Pieri Wor, the Hatohobei State Song
• Old Fishing Song
• Two Poems by Ward Goodenough

Prayers—

• The Lord's Prayer by Soty Patris
• Versions of the Our Father
• Mission Versions of Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, Apostles Creed

Stories—

• The Story of Clans and Chickens
• The Story of Chasing a Ship Back Over the Horizon

Tobian: general information from Ethnologue.com

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