Collections Online

A Gilbertese-English dictionary

documentary heritage

'Words are pronounced as they are spelled. The great majority of Gilbertese syllables end in a vowel. Many syllables end in m or n ; some in ±. No syllables end in b or k or r or t or w.' -- p. vii

Last Update: 7 May 2026

Collection Area

—

akm.collections.field_type_title_label

—

Te reo Name

—

Common Name

—

Other Name

—

Other Name Type

—

Description

—

Place

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Associated Place

—

Field Collection Place

—

Field Collection Site

—

Collection Date

—

Field Collection Date

—

Accession Number

—

Accession Date

—

Other Id

PL6245.Z5 BIN (Library of Congress Call Number)

74282 (Cat ID)

143319 (DBTextworks system ID)

71401 (Presto content ID)

Other Id Type

—

Department

Publications

Display Room

—

Restriction

—

Type

—

Enquire API view

A Gilbertese-English dictionary — All Rights Reserved

Display Room: —
Object Type: book
Name/Title: A Gilbertese-English dictionary
Other Name: —
Primary Maker: Hiram Bingham (Author)
Contributor/Publisher: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: 1908
Production date notes: —
Signature/marks: —
Physical Description: viii, 179 pages ; 24 cm
Serial Holdings: —
ISBN/ISSN: —
Language: —
Collection: —
Level of Current Record: Bib record
Member Object: 1 item in this collection. View all items.
Related Object Notes: —
Is Part Of: —
Media/Materials Description: —
Media/Materials: —
Measurement Reading: —
Technique: —
Edition/State/Version: —
Subject Person: —
Subject Category: Gilbertese language--Dictionaries--English
Classification: —
Content: —
Public Access Text: [Keywords: Kiribati language]
This Dictionary contains over 12,000 words including derivatives and 500 Gilbertized foreign words which occur in Gilbertese books printed since 1857, principally in the Bible, the Geography and the Arithmetic.' -- p. vii The definitions for many of the less common words are such as the writer has understood his assistant, Mr Moses Kaure, to give. Mr Kaure assisted him for four years in the translation of the Old Testament into Gilbertese in 1886-1890.' -- preface. '1,000 copies printed by the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. -- title page verso Downloadable free from the Internet Archive.
Researcher Notes: —
Associated Notes: —
Subject Notes: 'By 1890 Bingham had completed translating the entire Bible into the Gilbertese language, and it was published in 1892. His other publications include The Story of the Morning Star (1866), a Gilbertese hymn book (1880), commentaries on the Gospels and the book of Acts, a Gilbert Islands Bible Dictionary (1895), and a Gilbertese dictionary (1908).' -- Yale University Library MS 81.
Collection Type: Reserve Collection
Credit Line: —
Last Update: 07 May 2026

A Gilbertese-English dictionary

Your collection (0)