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

该项目的主要研究成果之一是出版了由耶稣会编撰并由迪奥戈·里贝罗神父于1626年修订的私人版Konkani-葡萄牙词典。需要出版这本书是基于以下两个原因。首先，作为一种在印度使用的印欧语，Konkani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世纪达尔加多的Konkani-葡萄牙语词典，这一天非常难获得)。即使是拉尔夫·特纳的《印度-雅利安语言比较词典》，索引中的康卡尼词汇也不超过800个。其次，作为耶稣会传教士的语言学研究，托马斯·史蒂文的Konkani语法和他的以Konkani写成的基督教教义早在17世纪就已经出版了，而Konkani-葡萄牙词典到目前为止还没有出版。1999年仲夏，我在葡萄牙里斯本的一家二手书店的仓库里，偶然发现了697份打字手稿的复印件，题目是《词汇汇总表》。在接下来的一年里，在明尼苏达大学南亚埃姆斯图书馆的帮助下，我获得了原稿的复印件，这使我制作了这本印刷版本的Konkani-葡萄牙词典(=2006年3月发表的400页最终研究报告)。基本上，我是按照打字版本输入字母数据，根据原稿的复印件输入变音符号。

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.