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Diccionario Moro-Maguindanao-Español
- Publisher
- Tipografía Amigos del País
- Year
- 1892
- Language
- Maguindanaon and Spanish
- Availability
- Free to read
Published free: the link opens the whole book.
About the book
The Jesuit mission’s Maguindanaon–Spanish dictionary, the first for the language, compiled at Tamontaka. Out of copyright and free to read.
Father Jacinto Juanmartí, a Spanish Jesuit missionary, published this dictionary in Manila in 1892. In his note to the reader he says that no dictionary of Maguindanaon existed and that nothing had been printed in the language except recent catechisms. He built the dictionary only from the spoken word of the people, drawing on the many years he had lived among them. He admits it is incomplete and offers it as a base for others to build on.
The first part runs from Maguindanaon to Spanish and the second from Spanish to Maguindanaon. Entries mark words borrowed from Malay, Arabic and Sanskrit, and from the Maranao of Lake Lanao and the speech of Buayan and the upper Pulangi. For beginners, verbs are given in their active and passive forms, with notes on past and future. Juanmartí adds that most of the hill peoples along the Pulangi also understood Maguindanaon, so the dictionary would serve with them too.
From archive.org, openlibrary.org.
Cover from Open Library, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
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