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Ken, <br>
Re your query on honorific registers, try this article, which includes a
survey of various special speech registers<br>
in Austronesian languages.<br>
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Grimes, C.E. & K. R. Maryott (1994). Named speech registers. In
T. Dutton & D. T. Tryon (eds). <i>Language contact and change in the
Austronesian world.</i> Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<br>
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