Volume I: Maps -- Frontmatter -- Australia -- New Zealand -- Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) -- Melanesia (Fiji) -- Polynesia -- Metropolitan Language (English) -- Metropolitan Language (French, including Creoles) -- Metropolitan Language (Spanish, including Creoles) -- Metropolitan Language (Portuguese, including Creoles) -- Metropolitan Language (Dutch and German, including Pidgins) -- Metropolitan Language (Russian) (also applies to Siberia) -- Metropolitan Language (Japanese, including Pidgins) -- Pidgins (General) -- Pidgins (English) -- Languages used in the Domain of Religion in Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania -- Arabic-based and other Contact Languages on Maritime Trade Routes to China -- South-East Asia (Insular, including Irian Jaya) -- Philippines -- Taiwan -- South-East Asia (Continental) -- Indian Subcontinent -- China -- Mongolia -- Central Asia -- Caucasus Area -- Siberia -- Arctic Areas -- Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska -- United States Area -- Mexico -- Central America -- South America -- Modern Media in the Pacific Area -- Volume II.1: Texts -- Frontmatter -- Australia -- General remarks on Australia -- Post contact languages in mainland Australia after 1788 -- Koines and indigenous lingue franche in Australia -- Early language contact in Tasmania -- Pidgin English in New South Wales -- Language contacts and Pidgin English in Victoria -- Pidgins and creoles of Queensland -- Nineteenth century language contact in South Australia -- Post-contact languages of Western Australia -- Post-contact Aboriginal languages in the Northern Territory -- Aboriginal English -- The diffusion of Pidgin English in Australia -- New Zealand -- General introduction and notes on the Map 'Aotearoa - New Zealand: population, ethnicity, languages' -- New Zealand English: Speech -- New Zealand English lexis -- The Maori language in New Zealand -- Moriori: language death (New Zealand) -- English-Maori contact languages in New Zealand -- The Indians and their languages in New Zealand -- Pacific Island languages in New Zealand -- The Dalmatians and their language in New Zealand -- The New Zealand Chinese -- The Germans and their language in New Zealand -- The Poles and their language in New Zealand -- The Greeks and their language in New Zealand -- The Dutch and their language in New Zealand -- Melanesia -- Languages in contact in Central and South-east Mainland Papua New Guinea -- Other pidgins in Papua New Guinea -- Privately owned Mekeo-based trade languages -- Pidgin Fijian and Pidgin Hindustani in Fiji -- Metropolitan languages (in part including pidgins and creoles) -- The English language in the Asia Pacific region -- French in the South Pacific -- The Creole language Tayo and language contact in the 'Far South' region of New Caledonia -- Spanish in the Pacific -- Portuguese and Creole Portuguese in the Pacific and Western Pacific rim -- Dutch in the Pacific area -- German in the Pacific area -- The spread of Russian settlement and language in Siberia from the sixteenth century onwards -- Japanese language in the Pacific -- Pidgins (General and English) -- Precolonial patterns of intercultural communication in the Pacific Islands -- Post-contact pidgins, creoles, and lingue franche, based on non-European and indigenous languages -- English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 19th century (excluding Australia) -- English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 20th century (excluding Australia) -- Palmerston English -- Productive fellow -- The development and diffusion of pronouns in Pacific Pidgin English -- The origins and diffusion of Pidgin English in the Pacific -- Languages used in the domain of religion in insular southeast Asia and Oceania -- Mission and church languages in Papua New Guinea -- Mission and church languages in Island Melanesia -- Philippines: mission and religious languages -- Languages used in the domain of religion in Indonesia -- Arabic-based and other contact languages on maritime trade routes to China -- The potential for the development of Arabic-based and other contact languages along the maritime trade routes between the Middle East and China, from the start of the Christian era -- South-East Asia (Insular, including Irian Jaya) -- Malay: its history, role and spread -- Contact languages in Indonesia and Malaysia other than Malay -- Some trade languages of insular South-East Asia and Irian Jaya -- Notes of the use of Geser as a trade language in eastern Indonesia -- Indonesian-the official language of a multilingual nation -- Malay-the national language of Malaysia -- Philippines -- Major languages of wider communication and Trade Languages of the Philippines -- Intercommunication between speakers of minor languages in the Philippines -- Taiwan -- The lingue franche in Taiwan -- South-East Asia (Continental) -- Burmese as a lingua franca -- Kachin -- Lahu -- Nagamese -- Nepali as a lingua franca -- Bantawa Rai -- Empires and lingue franche in premodern South-East Asia -- Southwestern Dai as a lingua franca -- Vietnamese -- Yunnanese Chinese -- Indian Subcontinent -- Languages of interethnic communication on the Indian Subcontinent (excluding Nepal) -- Volume II.2: Texts -- Frontmatter -- China -- Preliminary thoughts on Chinese and Chinese contact languages in the Pacific area -- North China: Intercultural communication involving indigenous languages other than Chinese -- Mongolic languages as idioms of intercultural communication in Northern Manchuria -- Tibetan -- Yi -- Some hybrid languages in China -- The Ejnu language -- The Hezhou language -- The Tangwang language -- The Wutun language -- The Mongols in Yunnan -- An example of multilingualism in the Great Northwest of China -- Hybrid Chinese of the Mongol Period (13th-14th century) -- Korea -- Some remarks on present-day intercultural communication in South Korea -- Mongolia -- Contact languages and language influences in Mongolia -- Central Asia -- Languages of interethnic communication in the area of Central Asia and Kazakhstan -- Languages of interethnic communication in Uzbekistan -- Languages of interethnic contacts in Karakalpakistan, the former Karakalpak Autonomous ASSR -- Languages of interethnic communication in Turkmenistan -- Languages of interethnic communication in Kazakhstan -- Languages of interethnic communication in Kirgizistan -- Languages of interethnic communication in Tajikistan -- Languages of interethnic communication in the Gorno-Badakhshan province of Tajikistan -- Shugni as a lingua franca in the Parnir area -- The languages of the 'Silk Route' up to the 16th century -- Caucasus Area -- Language situation, language contacts and contact languages in the Caucasus area -- The Avar language area -- The Lezgian languages area -- Siberia -- Siberia: 1650-1950 ethnic and linguistic changes -- Indigenous lingue franche and bilingualism in Siberia (beginning of the 20th century) -- Some lingue franche and pidgins in North Siberian and North Pacific areas at the beginning of the 20th century -- Ethnic composition of the population, ethno-cultural contacts and languages of interethnic communication in the northeast of the Asian coastal areas of the Pacific Ocean -- The Far North-East of Russia -- Interethnic contacts of the aboriginal population of Kamchatka -- The linguistic situation on Sakhalin Island -- Use of languages in the southern part of the Russian Far East -- 'Govorka'-the pidgin Russian of the Taymyr Peninsular area -- Selkup as lingua franca -- Finger-counting with Buryats and Evenkis in Siberia Buryat finger-counting -- Finger-counting with Buryats and Evenkis in Siberia Hand-counting with the Sym Evenkis -- Arctic Areas -- History of Eskimo interethnic contact and its linguistic consequences -- Aleut and the Aleuts in contact with other languages and peoples -- Semaphoric communication, western Aleuts -- Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska -- Interethnic communication in Canada, Alaska and adjacent areas -- Michif and other languages of the Canadian Métis -- Chinook Jargon and its distribution in the Pacific Northwest and beyond -- The Russian

language in Alaska and in Alaskan native languages -- United States Area -- Native American contact languages of the contiguous United States -- The Plains Indian Sign Language -- Mexico -- Languages of intercommunication in Mexico -- Central America -- Restructured languages in the Caribbean area -- Negerhollands -- Island Carib -- South America -- Quechua, a language of intercultural communication in the Middle Andes -- Aymaran, the Lake Titicaca area, and the central part of the Pacific coastal area of Perú -- Araucanian, a language of intercultural communication in the Southern Andes -- Media Lengua in Ecuador -- Callahuaya in Bolivia -- The Tupí-Guaraní languages of Atlantic South America, and Línguas Gerais -- Areas of multilingualism in northern South America -- Berbice Dutch Creole -- Literacy and modern media in communication in the Pacific Area -- Literacy in Oceania -- Modern media in the Pacific area and their role in intercultural communication -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 1 -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 2 -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 3 -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 4 -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 5 -- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 6