Sidney Herbert Ray

Sidney Herbert Ray (28 ga Mayu 1858 - 1 ga Janairu 1939) ya kasance masanin ilimin harshe na Burtaniya wanda ya kware a cikin Harsunan Melanesia . 

A shekara ta 1892, ya karanta wani muhimmin takarda, The Languages of British New Guinea, zuwa Taron Kasa da Kasa na Tara na Orientalists . A cikin wannan takarda, ya kafa bambanci tsakanin yarukan Austronesian da Papuan na New Guinea.  Kodayake bai taba rike mukamin ilimi ba, kuma an yi amfani da shi a duk rayuwarsa ta aiki a matsayin malamin makaranta,  S. H. Ray ma'aikaci ne mai himma, kuma ya shiga cikin balaguro da yawa.

An gudanar da aikinsa na farko a matsayin wani ɓangare na A. C. Haddon na 1898 Torres Straits Expedition tare da W. H. R. Rivers, C. G. Seligman da Anthony Wilkin . A lokacin Ray malamin makarantar firamare ne, wanda ya riga ya yi nazarin harsuna biyu na Torres Straits bisa ga wallafe-wallafen mishan da bayanan da Haddon ya bayar.

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