Early Manila Hokkien (EMHo): Language, Missionary Linguistics and Migration from the perspective of the Bocabulario de lengua sangleya por las letraz de el A.B.C.

EMHO项目的中心是一本17世纪初的中西手稿词典：《Bocumario de Lengua sangleya Por las letraz de el A.B.C.》。这本书由一位匿名的西班牙传教士撰写，由200多页双面对开本组成，为在马尼拉的中国移民所说的语言提供了丰富的文献资料。这种语言被称为闽南语，或者，特别是在东南亚，称为闽南语。该项目旨在通过包括数字传真件、外交抄本和英文翻译在内的数字学术版使Bocumario的内容变得可用。原始西班牙语文本的扩展标准化表示以及带有行间注解、声调转录和中文字符的附加语言注释旨在使更广泛的语言社区能够访问数据，从而为非欧洲语言的数字编码创造新的可能性。在这一版本的基础上，通过将其置于三个相互关联的背景下进行分析：语言史、传教士语言学和历史社会语言学。这项历史-语言分析建立在一种假设之上，即在马尼拉的中国移民讲一种被称为马尼拉早期闽南语的接触变体，包括不同的闽南方言的特征。通过系统的语言比较，该项目旨在确定早期马尼拉闽南语在闽南方言群和东南亚语言区的地位。传教士语言学领域的研究旨在从伊比利亚-罗曼史的角度对《博卡布里奥》的语言元语言和词典结构进行分类，并通过术语和词典比较，深入了解传教士是如何在中国之外的地方概念化汉语的--从而在缺乏与中国语言学者的智力交流的情况下。在社会历史层面，该项目突出了这样一个事实，即早期马尼拉闽南语是移民所说的语言。由于中国移民大大增加了马尼拉语言的复杂性，该项目努力重建西班牙殖民主义早期阶段城市语言环境的性质。具体地说，我们试图洞察早期马尼拉闽南语相对于其他语言的地位，以及塑造社会语言环境的主流殖民语言意识形态。

The EMHo project centers on a Chinese-Spanish manuscript dictionary of the early seventeenth century: the "Bocabulario de lengua sangleya por las letraz de el A.B.C." Written by an anonymous Spanish missionary and comprising more than 200 double-sided folios, the Bocabulario offers a rich documentation of the language spoken by Chinese migrants in Manila. This language is known as Southern Min or alternatively, especially in Southeast Asia, as Hokkien. The project aims to make the content of the Bocabulario accessible through a digital scholarly edition comprising digital facsimiles, a diplomatic transcription, and an English translation. An extended normalized representation of the original Spanish text and additional linguistic annotations with interlinear glosses, tone transcriptions, and Chinese characters are intended to make the data accessible to a broader linguistic community, thereby creating new possibilities for the digital encoding of non-European languages. On the basis of this edition, the Bocabulario will be analyzed by situating it in three interrelated contexts: language history, missionary linguistics, and historical sociolinguistics. The historical-linguistic analysis builds on the hypothesis that Chinese migrants in Manila spoke a contact variety known as Early Manila Hokkien comprising features of different Southern Min dialects. Through systematic linguistic comparison, the project aims to determine the status of Early Manila Hokkien within the group of Southern Min dialects and the Southeast Asian linguistic area. Research in the field of missionary linguistics aims to classify the linguistic metalanguage and lexicographic structure of the Bocabulario from an Ibero-Romance perspective and to fathom, through terminological and lexicographic comparisons, how missionaries conceptualized a Chinese language outside of China – and thus in the absence of intellectual exchanges with Chinese language scholars. In its socio-historical dimensions, the project foregrounds the fact that Early Manila Hokkien was a language spoken by migrants. Since Chinese migration significantly added to the linguistic complexity of Manila, the project endeavors to reconstruct the nature of the linguistic setting of the city in the early phase of Spanish colonialism. Concretely speaking, we seek to gain insights into the status of Early Manila Hokkien vis-à-vis other languages and of prevailing colonial language ideologies that shaped the sociolinguistic setting.