Palauan language materials in Bernice P. Bishop Museum Library,
Honolulu, Hawaii
Compiled by Ruth H. Horie
2014 October 13

Online catalog: http://bishopmuseumlib.lib.hawaii.edu/
Titles are in chronological order of publication. 
Those marked with * were not found in the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library.

Keate, George
An account of the Pelew Islands.
London: Printed for Captain Wilson and sold by G. Nicol, 1788.
Includes: "A vocabulary of the Pelew language", p. 365-378.
Fuller Collection DU780 K25

Keate, George
Relation des îles Pelew.
Paris: Chez Maradan, 1793.
Includes: "Vocabulaire de langue Pélew", v. 2, p. [251]-267.
Fuller Collection DU780 K25

Hockin, John Pearce
A supplement to the account of the Pelew Islands.
London: Printed for Captain Henry Wilson, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1803.
Includes: "A vocabulary of the Pelew Islands", p. [65]-72.
l.c. Collection DU870 H68 

Cheyne, Andrew
A description of islands in the Western Pacific Ocean.
London: J.D. Potter, 1852.
Includes: "Vocabulary of the Pallou Island language", p. 196-198.
l.c. Collection DU12 C53

Walleser, Salvator
Grammatik der Palausprache.
Berlin: G. Reimer, 1911.
PL780 W19

Walleser, Salvator
Palau Wörterbuch.
Hongkong: Typis Societatis Missionum ad Exteros, 1913.
Folio PL780 W19

Conant, Carlos Everett
Notes on the phonology of the Palau language.
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 35, pt. 1, p. 1-15, July 1915.
GN2.S A51

*Matsuoka, Shizuo
Palau-go no kenkyu.
Tokyo, 1930
PL568.P1 M43

*Chalitakl e katechismo era eklesia el Protestant era Palau.
Bad Liebenzell, Germany: Liebenzeller Mission, 1940.
l.c. Collection BT1039.P73 C43

*Palau reader. Book 1.
Palau Islands, 1948.
(First reader in English printed in Palau after World War II. 
Issued by U.S. Navy under the direction of George Taggart.
This is included because of historical interest.)

Capell, Arthur
A grammar of the language of Palau.
Washington, D.C.: Pacific Science Board, National Research Council, 1949?
GN669 C77 no.6b

Capell, Arthur
Palau possessives and problems in morpheme identification.
In: Oceania, v. 24, no. 4, p. 273-282, 1957.
GN1 O15

*McManus, Edwin G.
Grammar and dictionary, Palau-English and English-Palau.
1964?
Folio PL780 .M16 

*A Beches el telbiil el mungakl a Beches el Testament era rubak er kid el osobeled el Jesus Kristus.
New York: American Bible Society, 1964.
PL780 A51

Josephs, Lewis S.
Palauan reference grammar.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1975.
PL5434 J83

McManus, Edwin G.
Palauan-English dictionary.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977.
PL5434.Z5 M16

Johannes, R. E.
Words of the lagoon.
Berkeley:University of California Press, 1981.
Contains glossaries of Palauan and Tobian words.
SH319.P15 J65

Josephs, Lewis S.
New Palauan-English dictionary.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
PL5434.Z5 M16 1990