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Entangled Histories, Catholic Missions and Languages: Mapping Amerindian, African and Asian Languages Through Portuguese in Early Modernity

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2023
This essay focuses on the heterogeneous missionary contexts connected to the Portuguese Empire, in the hemisphere assigned to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and Zaragoza (1529), ranging from Brasil, Sub-Saharan Africa, to India, Vietnam ...
Angelo Cattaneo
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பயன்பாட்டுத் தமிழ் இலக்கண நூல் உருவாக்கப் பின்புலமும் ஐரோப்பியர் வருகையும் Background of Tamil Functional Grammar and Entry of Europeans [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2022
The usage of a language depends on two major factors such as speaking and writing. Texts in Tamil that aids in classifying grammatic forms and techniques can be termed as Functional Tamil Grammar.
வெ. அம்பிகா / V. Ambika   +1 more
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FONOLOGÍA DEL TUCANO OCCIDENTAL EN UN VOCABULARIO MISIONERO DEL ESPACIO GEOGRÁFICO ECUATO-COLOMBIANO (SIGLO XVIII) [PDF]

open access: yesLingüística, 2020
En este artículo se analiza la fonología de la lengua amazónica descrita en un Vocabulario fruto de la acción misionera por parte de los Padres Franciscanos del convento de Quito en las cuencas de los ríos Putumayo y Caquetá a lo largo del siglo XVIII.
Micaela Carrera de la Red
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Between Dogma and Data: Wilhelm Schmidt and the Afterlives of 19th-Century Ethnolinguistics

open access: yesHistoire Épistémologie Langage, 2023
Father Wilhelm Schmidt SVD (1868-1954) was one of the great linguistic and ethnological information hoarders of the early 20th century. Through the missionary Society of the Divine Word, he coordinated an army of trained fieldworkers who supplied him ...
Floris Solleveld
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Missionary Linguistics VI

open access: yesLes carnets d'HTL, 2021
This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and their linguistic production, but ...
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La lengua de los tobas bolivianos en un vocabulario inédito del franciscano Hermán Cattunar (c. 1911)

open access: yesCorpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2021
Much of what we know about the society of Toba peoples in the Bolivian Chaco comes from publications of Franciscan missionaries who interacted with them in the 19th century.
María Belén Carpio, Marcela Mendoza
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Parole, parole, parole... Il contributo della sinologia italiana alla compilazione di dizionari di lingua cinese

open access: yesLea, 2020
The main objective of this article is to briefly illustrate the contribution of Italian sinology in compiling dictionaries of the Chinese language. Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci succeed in compiling a list of words by means of a new transcription ...
Miriam Castorina
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UMA MODALIDADE DE PERGUNTA MISSIONÁRIA

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
“Comprehension check” is a dialogue which occurs simultaneously to biblical translation for indigenous languages at Summer Institute of Linguistics. During this stage, the missionary verifies, by way of question and answer, the native’s comprehension of ...
Maria Cândida Drumond Mendes Barros
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Broadening the World of Knowledge: The Effects of Travel on the Transfer of Linguistic Data between Asia and Europe

open access: yes[sic], 2020
This paper provides an examination of the effects of contact between Europe and Asia in the early modern period, especially with regard to the exchange of linguistic data and ideas.
Violeta Moretti
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Linguistic Heritage of A. G. Bessonov as a Dialect Monument of Early 20th Century Bashkir

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2021
Goals. The article seeks to sum up Bashkir dialect features traced in early 20th century written monuments authored by the Russian scholar and missionary A. G. Bessonov. Results.
Zarema N. Ekba, Ramilya N. Karimova
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