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born 1833 · died 1897
Catalan Jesuit who ran the Tamontaka mission near Cotabato in the late nineteenth century and wrote the first Maguindanaon grammar and dictionary.

1892Free to read
Diccionario Moro-Maguindanao-EspañolJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
Tipografía Amigos del País
The Jesuit mission’s Maguindanaon–Spanish dictionary, the first for the language, compiled at Tamontaka. Out of copyright and free to read.

1906Free to read
A Grammar of the Maguindanao TongueJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
United States Government Printing Office
Juanmartí’s 1892 grammar translated into English for the American army by Captain C. C. Smith of the 14th Cavalry. Out of copyright and free to read.