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士编写并由神父Diogo Ribeiro于1626年修订的私人版konkani -葡萄牙语词典。需要这个出版物是基于以下两个原因。首先，作为在印度使用的一种印欧语言，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世纪的达尔加多的康卡尼-葡萄牙语词典，这在今天是极其难以获得的）。即使是拉尔夫·特纳的《印度-雅利安语言比较词典》在索引中也只包含不超过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·史蒂文的《康卡尼语语法》和《基督教教义》在17世纪就已经出版，而康卡尼-葡萄牙语词典至今还没有出版。我认为，这些原因证明了发表这篇手稿是合理的。1999年仲夏，在葡萄牙里斯本一家二手书店的仓库里，我偶然发现了一份名为《加纳利语词汇表》（Vocabulario da linggoa Canarim）的697张抄写稿。第二年，在明尼苏达大学艾姆斯南亚图书馆的帮助下，我获得了一份原始手稿的复印本，这促使我制作了这本印刷版的《Konkani-Portuguese dictionary》（= 2006年3月出版的400页最终研究报告）。我基本上是根据打字版本输入字母数据，根据原始手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.