Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012

In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present-day north-western Angola and the southern part...

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Autores principales:	Jasper De Kind, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen
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Publicado:	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2012
Materias:	kikongo kongo kingdom congo angola capuchins jesuits bantu latin spanish french flemish authorship compilation strategy language dialect orthography base letters diacritics phonetics proto-bantu translation equivalence meaning extensions paraphrases loanwords misnamings retranslations lexicographical structure manuscript database Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:04d66e7674be4d2b83902a8f5498b3892021-12-03T06:42:22ZPushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 201210.5788/22-1-10021684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/04d66e7674be4d2b83902a8f5498b3892012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1002https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present-day north-western Angola and the southern part of the Lower Congo Province of the DRC). The manuscript was heavily reworked by the Belgian Jesuits Joseph van Wing and Constant Penders, and published in 1928. Both works are currently being digitized, linked and added to an interlingual and multimedia database that revolves around Kikongo and the early history of the Kongo kingdom. In Sections 1 and 2 the origins of Bantu lexicography in general and of Kikongo metalexicography in particular are revisited. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to a study of Van Gheel's manuscript and an analysis of Van Wing and Penders' rework. In Sections 5 and 6 translation equivalence and lexicographical structure in both dictionaries are scrutinized and compared. In Section 7, finally, all the material is brought together. Jasper De KindGilles-Maurice de SchryverKoen BostoenWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlekikongokongo kingdomcongoangolacapuchinsjesuitsbantulatinspanishfrenchflemishauthorshipcompilation strategylanguagedialectorthographybase lettersdiacriticsphoneticsproto-bantutranslation equivalencemeaning extensionsparaphrasesloanwordsmisnamingsretranslationslexicographical structuremanuscriptdatabasePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 22, Pp 159-194 (2012)
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topic	kikongo kongo kingdom congo angola capuchins jesuits bantu latin spanish french flemish authorship compilation strategy language dialect orthography base letters diacritics phonetics proto-bantu translation equivalence meaning extensions paraphrases loanwords misnamings retranslations lexicographical structure manuscript database Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
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description	In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present-day north-western Angola and the southern part of the Lower Congo Province of the DRC). The manuscript was heavily reworked by the Belgian Jesuits Joseph van Wing and Constant Penders, and published in 1928. Both works are currently being digitized, linked and added to an interlingual and multimedia database that revolves around Kikongo and the early history of the Kongo kingdom. In Sections 1 and 2 the origins of Bantu lexicography in general and of Kikongo metalexicography in particular are revisited. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to a study of Van Gheel's manuscript and an analysis of Van Wing and Penders' rework. In Sections 5 and 6 translation equivalence and lexicographical structure in both dictionaries are scrutinized and compared. In Section 7, finally, all the material is brought together.
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title	Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
title_short	Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
title_full	Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012

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