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A Grammar of the Maguindanao Tongue
According to the Manner of Speaking It in the Interior and on the South Coast of the Island of Mindanao
- Year
- 1906
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 80
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
Juanmartí’s 1892 grammar translated into English for the American army by Captain C. C. Smith of the 14th Cavalry. Out of copyright and free to read.
This is an English translation of a short Spanish grammar of the Maguindanaon language by the Jesuit missionary Jacinto Juanmartí. Captain C. C. Smith of the 14th Cavalry translated it at Camp Overton, Mindanao, in 1905, to learn the language himself. The US War Department printed it in 1906.
In his preface Juanmartí says there were almost no written texts to work from, so he built the rules from years of listening to speakers, with help from Malay. He wrote it for missionaries who would follow him. Smith adds that the speech of the Maguindanaon of Cotabato and of the Maranao of the lake region are close enough for the grammar to serve both. It notes, for example, that the Maranao use r where the Maguindanaon prefer l.
The book covers letters and sounds, nouns, verbs active and passive, adverbs and prepositions, and lists of common phrases. It ends with a short vocabulary of English, Maguindanaon and Malay, on pages 65 to 80.
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