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A Maranao Dictionary / ed. by Batua A. Macaraya, Howard P. McKaughan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824885946
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I Maranao-English Dictionary -- A -- B -- D -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- NG -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Part II English-Maranao Dictionary, -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary: Maranao, one of the eight major languages in the Philippines, is spoken by some 400,000 members of a Maranao society on the island of Mindanao. This dictionary, for which the primary source was the spoken language, is the result of the authors’ field work among the Maranao people.Part I of the dictionary contains 18,000 Maranao entries, most of them glosse by two to four English words or phrases. Included are more than 700 popular Maranao plant names identified with their scientific equivalents. Over 3,000 Maranao words have been illustrated by sentences, freely translated into English, to provide examples of Maranao syntax. Part II of the compilation contains alphabetized English glosses which provide a valuable cross-reference to Part I. The work also includes a sketch of Maranao grammar to aid the user in identifying base forms, the forms used for the entries.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I Maranao-English Dictionary -- A -- B -- D -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- NG -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Part II English-Maranao Dictionary, -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

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Maranao, one of the eight major languages in the Philippines, is spoken by some 400,000 members of a Maranao society on the island of Mindanao. This dictionary, for which the primary source was the spoken language, is the result of the authors’ field work among the Maranao people.Part I of the dictionary contains 18,000 Maranao entries, most of them glosse by two to four English words or phrases. Included are more than 700 popular Maranao plant names identified with their scientific equivalents. Over 3,000 Maranao words have been illustrated by sentences, freely translated into English, to provide examples of Maranao syntax. Part II of the compilation contains alphabetized English glosses which provide a valuable cross-reference to Part I. The work also includes a sketch of Maranao grammar to aid the user in identifying base forms, the forms used for the entries.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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