Fiji and the Fijians, Vol. 1

Download or read book Fiji and the Fijians, Vol. 1 written by Thomas Williams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fiji and the Fijians, Vol. 1: The Islands and Their Inhabitants The Missionaries who have given to these languages a fixed orthography, have wisely adopted the Roman alphabet, and a system of vowels having the Italian power, which met the requirements of the case far better than the almost exceptional sounds of the English vowels. As regards the consonants, the Missionaries found that the Fijian did not require all the characters used by ourselves some of these were therefore rejected, while some were employed where we have recourse to a clumsy combination. Thus, for instance, they have taken the unnecessary C to express the soft dental Th. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.