Samuel Hoyt Elbert

Samuel Hoyt Elbert ( an haife shie 8 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1907 - 14 ga watan Mayu shekara ta 1997) masanin harshe ne na kasara  Amurka wanda ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga ilimin lissafi na Hawaiian da Polynesian da ethnography . An haife shi a wani gona a Des Moines, Iowa, ga Hoyt Hugh Elbert da Ethelind (Swire) Elbert, Sam ya girma a kan dawakai, daya daga cikin abubuwan da ya fi so har zuwa ritaya. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Grinnell tare da A.B. a 1928, ya sami takardar shaidar Faransanci a Jami'ar Toulouse kuma ya yi tafiya a Turai kafin ya koma Birnin New York, inda ya jira tebur, ya yi aiki a jarida, ya sake nazarin littattafai, kuma ya yi karatun aikin jarida a Jami'a. Wanderlust ya kai shi Polynesia ta Faransa, da farko zuwa Tahiti sannan zuwa Marquesas, inda da sauri ya zama ƙwararre a Marquesan.A shekara ta 1936, ya tafi aiki don binciken ilimin ƙasa na Amurka a Hawaii'i. A can ya sadu da masu bincike kan harsuna da al'adu na Pacific a Gidan Tarihin Bishop, shugaban daga cikinsu Mary Kawena Pukui, wanda ya koyi yaren Hawaiian kuma tare da shi ya yi aiki tare da shi tsawon shekaru arba'in. Lokacin da yaƙin ya ɓarke a cikin Pacific, Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka sun yi amfani da shi a matsayin jami'in leken asiri wanda ke nazarin harsunan tsibirai masu mahimmanci. An tura shi zuwa Samoa a 1943, sannan zuwa Micronesia, inda ya tattara kuma ya buga jerin kalmomi don harsunan tsibirin da yawa.

Bayan yakin, wanda masana kimiyya a Gidan Tarihi na Bishop da Jami'ar Hawai'i suka karfafa shi, ya yi karatu a Yale da Jami'an Indiana, inda ya sami Ph.D. a cikin al'adun gargajiya a 1950, yana rubuta rubutunsa a kan 'The Chief in Hawaiian Mythology'. Jami'ar Hawai'i ta hayar da shi a 1949, kuma ya koyar da darussan a cikin Harshen Hawaiian da ilimin harshe har sai da ya yi ritaya a 1972, ya gabatar da sabbin hanyoyin koyarwa da sabbin matakan tsauraran darussan harshen Hawaiian, wanda har zuwa lokacin yana da suna don zama mai sauƙi.

A shekara ta 1957, ya fara haɗin gwiwa na dogon lokaci tare da masanin Danish, Torben Monberg, a kan Polynesian outliers na Rennell da Bellona a cikin Solomon Islands, yana yin tafiye-tafiye hudu zuwa tsibirin. Ya shafe shekara guda a Denmark a kan tallafin Fulbright a 1964-64 yana aiki tare da Monberg a kan wani littafi kan al'adun baki na Rennell da Bellona. A shekara ta 1988, ya wallafa wani harshe na harshe.

A shekara ta 1972, ya wallafa ƙamus na Harshen Puluwatese sannan ya biyo bayan littafin harshe na yaren a shekara ta 1974.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1997
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1907