Online Dictionaries - Oceanic Language Dictionaries

Online Dictionaries From Around The World! Presented here is a collection of pages with links to online dictionaries in languages from all over the world, including monolingual online dictionaries, bilingual online dictionaries, online technical and specialty dictionaries, and online translation engines and hyper-dictionaries. We provide these links for scholars, students, and language-learners to help in their quest to pin down that word, meaning, or phrase that eludes them, and to further their knowledge of their secondary (or perhaps primary) language. In many cases, fonts for character sets must be downloaded to view the contents of the dictionaries; these are freely available on the web and will often be linked to from the dictionary site in question. If you find any of the links dead and you want to notify us, or if you have recommendations for another dictionary to add to the site, contact us by email at . Samoan | Maori | Kiribati/Gilbertese | Other Oceanic Language Dictionaries Online Dictionaries Main Index

Samoan Dictionaries

Samoan Alive Dictionary - Online HTML Samoan-English dictionary, adapted from the Learners Samoan Dictionary by Mautanoa Lisi Va'ai.

A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language - Online HTML version of Reverend George Pratt's A Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Language, with English and Samoan vocabulary, from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

Samoan Expressions and Phrases - Basic phrases and expressions in Samoan, useful to travellers and language learners.

Maori Dictionaries

English-Maori Word Translator - Online bilingual dictionary query engine for English-Maori from KEDRI (Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Institute).

English-Maori Lexical Datasets - A number of downloadable lexical datasets for Maori and English-Maori, plus a numbers of papers on Maori linguistics.

H. M. Ngata English-Maori Dictionary - Online searchable bilingual Maori-English dictionary, with definitions and example phrases for each words defined.

Kiribati/Gilbertese Dictionaries

Hale's Tarawan Vocabulary (1846) - HTML version with alphabetical index of the first known description of Gilbertese, published in 1846, in the Ethnology and Philology volume of the report of the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-42, compiled by Horatio (Emmons) Hale.

A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary - Alphabetized online HTML dictionary, based on the works of Hiram Bingham, D.D., A Gilbertese-English Dictionary and Father Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Gilbertese-English Dictionary. (translated by Sr. M. Oliva), with additional scientific material from Luomala, Goo & Banner.

An English-Kiribati Finderlist - HTML Kiribati-English dictionary with alphabetical index.

Kiribati-English Glossary - HTML Kiribati-English glossary from the Peace Corps Kiribati course.

Other Oceanic Language Dictionaries

Delaporte's Nauruan Dictionary (1907) - Online HTML version of Rev. Ph. A. Delaporte's German-Nauruan dictionary, indexed by the English equivalents for the German words, making it a trilingual Nauruan-English-German dictionary.

C. Maxwell Churchward's Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary - Searchable bilingual dictionary for Rotuman-English, based on C. Maxwell Churchward's Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary, first published in 1940.