A LOST LANGUAGE.
MOIUOEI THAT IS NO MORE. "The loss of Mr. Shand's Moriori dictionary (destroyed in the fire which accounted for the life' of its.compiler at at Chatham Islands)," says Mr. A. Ham- • ilton, curator of the Dominion Museum, ''menus that the. world lias lost a language; and in the death of Mr. Shand we have lost the only person whose information about the Moriori was genuinely valuable.. Under pressure from Mr. Percy Smith" and others, including myself, Mr. Shand had contributed papers, to the' Polynesian Society on the Mori.oris at the Chathauis, and these are prac-' tically 'all we will have to go on. Th« language, save for a few words, is lost— a great pity, Only by the last mail Mr. Shand wrote to me stating that he had ' been working on the dictionary, and that, it was now compiled and ready for publieation. Its loss is very unfortunate indeed, and the death of Mr. Shand is to be deeply deplored."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 899, 19 August 1910, Page 4
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164A LOST LANGUAGE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 899, 19 August 1910, Page 4
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