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 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

J. Juanmartí

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282532560 ISBN 13: 9780282532567

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from 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

This is one of those tongues not much known, and in which scarcely any manuscripts exist, save a few poorly kept notebooks which serve the Moros of these districts to transmit among them selves the usages and customs of the dialect. Such notebooks are generally written in a brief style, after the manner of letters which pass between them, in both of which much rudeness pre vails, and which are written with no little work or difficulty.

The scarcity of writings in this tongue, and the incorrectness of those that exist, make it difficult and almost impossible to compose a grammar which shall be full and perfect. Grammar being the conjunction of rules for proper speaking, it will be seen that it is not easy to obtain these rules by listening to the natives, as each one pronounces, more or less, after his own inclination.

Time and constancy, with observation and experience of some years as to the mode of expressing Moro ideas, has made it pos sible to use the rules put down in this grammar. The Malay language, somewhat like the Visayan and Moro, both of which recognize it as a mother tongue, has aided me in the preparation of this book.

We have confidence in God that this treatise will serve to facilitate the study of the Moro tongue for our brother mission aries whom Divine Providence has destined to follow this work, and for others who may come to these lands who wish to learn it; and it will also serve the purpose of permitting the natives to learn the beautiful language of Castilla.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0282532560
• ISBN 13: 9780282532567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 83