Gilbertese
nounEtymology From Gilbert + -ese. See Gilbertese language § Name on Wikipedia.
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In plural A person from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.
- If each Gilbertese passes on land to his or her children, not very many generations will pass before the land plots become relatively fragmented. This was and is the case. Many land plots are small,[…]1981, Roland W. Force, Brenda Bishop, Persistence and Exchange: Papers from a Symposium on Ecological Problems of the Traditional Societies of the Pacific Region : XIV Pacific Science Congress, Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R., August--September, 1979: