Nduke wordlist and Nduke anthropological fieldnotes. These sources were never published and did not form the basis for later orthographies. Two variant orthographies arose in local use, based on that used by the Methodist mission for Roviana, and that used by the Seventh-day Adventist mission for Marovo. These missions arrived in Nduke in 1917 and 1919 respectively. Recent lexical work on Nduke has used a composite of these two orthographies to avoid ambiguity. There are five diphthongs: , , , , and Pronouns and possessives The pronoun series is typically Oceanic. In addition to the basic forms tabulated below, dual and trial forms exist. Possession may be grammatically marked in two ways. Preposed possessive particles can be used. 'Inalienable' possession, as in the case of body parts, kin, or inherent characteristics, can be marked by possessive suffixes. Modern Nduke is tending away from use of these possessive series in preference for the general possessive marker , as in ('my eye'). Deixis Deictic terms are 'pointing words'. In addition to the personal deixis (pronoun and possessive) series above, Nduke has classes of words for spatial and time deixis. Documentation Sources for documentation of Nduke language have been noted by Palmer 2005. Grammar notes above have been sourced from Scales 1997. Wordlists include Hocart 1908, Tryon and Hackman 1983, and an online wordlist based on Tryon and Hackman. Lexical and Bible translation work are currently underway. References Northwest Solomonic languages Languages of the Solomon Islands