A study of 17^<th> century manuscript of Konkani-Portuguese dictionary

17世纪孔卡尼语-葡萄牙语词典手稿研究

• 批准号: 16520264
• 负责人: MARUYAMA Toru
• 金额: $ 1.73万
• 依托单位: Nanzan University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2004 至 2005
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16520264/
• 关键词: Konkani; Portuguese; Society of Jesus; Time of Discovery; Linguistic Studies; Dictionary; Christian Documents

One of the main research results of this project is a publication of a private edition of the Konkani-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuits and revised by Father Diogo Ribeiro in 1626. The need for this publication is based on the following two reasons. First of all, as an Indo-European language spoken in India, the Konkani vocabulary is not easily available in any documented form, either printed or electronic (except 19^<th> century Dalgado's Konkani-Portuguese dictionary which is extremely difficult to obtain these days). Even Ralph Turner's A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages contains not more than 800 Konkani words in the index. Secondly, as missionary linguistic studies by Jesuits, Thomas Steven's Konkani grammar and his Christian Doctrine, written in Konkani, were published already in the 17th century, while no Konkani-Portuguese dictionary has been published so far. I believe that these reasons justify the publication of this manuscript.In the midsummer of 1999, I happened to come across 697 carbon-copied sheets of a typewritten manuscript entitled Vocabulario da lingoa Canarim in a storehouse of a secondhand bookstore in Lisbon, Portugal. In the following year, by the courtesy of Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota, I was able to obtain a xerox copy of the original manuscript, which led me to make this printed version of the Konkani-Portuguese dictionary (=the 400 pages final research report published in March, 2006). Basically I have input the alphabetical data according to the typewritten version, and the diacritic marks according to the xerox copy of the original manuscript.

该项目的主要研究成果之一是由耶稣会士编纂并由Diogo Ribeiro神父于1626年修订的Konkani-葡萄牙语词典的私人版本。之所以需要这一出版物，是基于以下两个原因。首先，作为一种在印度使用的印欧语系语言，康卡尼语词汇不容易以任何书面形式获得，无论是印刷的还是电子的（除了19^<th>世纪达尔加多的康卡尼-葡萄牙语词典，这是非常难以获得这些天）。即使是拉尔夫·特纳的《印度-雅利安语言比较词典》的索引中也不超过800个康卡尼语单词。其次，作为耶稣会传教士的语言学研究，托马斯·斯蒂文的《孔卡尼语语法》和《基督教教义》（用孔卡尼语写成）早在世纪就已出版，而迄今为止还没有一部孔卡尼语-葡萄牙语词典出版。1999年仲夏，我在葡萄牙里斯本一家二手书店的仓库里偶然发现了697张复写纸的《加那利语词汇》（Vocabulario da lingoa Canarim）。第二年，在明尼苏达大学南亚艾姆斯图书馆的帮助下，我得到了一份原始手稿的复印件，这使我得以制作这本印刷版的康卡尼-葡萄牙语词典（= 2006年3月出版的400页最终研究报告）。基本上，我是按照打字稿输入字母数据，按照原稿的复印件输入变音符号。