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• Quackenbush Word List Tobian words as collected by E.M. Quackenbush and published in his dissertation in 1968 and as collected in February 2009 (through No. 194) by Peter W. Black working with Isauro Andrew who provided spelling, pronunciation, and occasional emendations.
  
  
• 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
    • Bodies & Their Parts from Isauro Andrew
    • Canoe Parts from Isauro Andrew and Justin Andrew
    • Clans of Tobi from Isauro Andrew
    • Colors from Isauro Andrew
    • Conflict Words 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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