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I dedicated this work to the people of Nias, who speak Niassan and share the concern that it is declining (disapperaring) fast. I was looking for ways to encourage the use of Nias language between Niassan who were active on social media, when I found this old Nias dictionary. This could contribute to the perservation of Nias language in the digital age.
Taken over from H. Sundermann, Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 1905. Considering that the author died more than 100 years ago (Indonesian copy rights set the expiry date of a work 75 years after the publication or the death of the author) I am confident that I could take some of its contents and put it here, so that the people of Nias can benefit from it.
I made some changes in order to comply with the Indonesian spelling rules (EYD) Nias children learn at school. So the letter oe is now u, j is y and ch is kh. Consequently I moved the entries started with those characters to its correct position in latin alphabet of Indonesian.
When necessary I added pronounciation between {} if certain word has different accent, which changes the meaning.