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Pigafetta's dictionary is the first Italian–Malay vocabulary written by the chronicler Antonio Pigafetta. These are the list words of the languages of various natives he met during his journey with Ferdinand Magellan.

Background

The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led about 270 men on five ships from Spain to look for the Spice Islands of Maluku. The Venetian chronicler Antonio Pigafetta participated in the expedition and served as an assistant to Magellan. He kept a detailed, daily journal of the voyage. He was one of only 18 men who returned to Spain in 1522.

One of his notable works in the voyage was his narrative and the list of words of various languages of natives during the long journey which includes: Brazilian native language – 8 words, Patagonian language – 90 words, Philippine language – 160 words, Malay – more than 400 words, which Pigafetta calls "Moorish."

In Pigafetta's book, Primo viaggio intorno al mondo (English: First Voyage Around the World), he takes care to record as many words as he can. The chronicle of Pigafetta was one of the most cited documents by historians who wished to study the precolonial Philippines. As one of the earliest written accounts, Pigafetta was seen as a credible source for a period, which was prior unchronicled and undocumented.

Some list of words

Below are some list of words as translated by Pigafetta on the third column, fourth column is the equivalent Philippine language that can be found from Diccionario bisaya-español y español-bisaya (Manila, 1885) by Juan Félix de la Encarnación and from Diccionario Hispano-bisaya y bisaya-español (Manila, 1895) by Antonio Sanchez de la Rosa and/or the equivalent Visayan word. It is regarded as the first European record of the Cebuano language and the oldest dictionary in the Philippines. Some words can be distinguished as Malay.

See also

• Le langaige du Bresil

Notes

1. ^ Bausani 1960.
2. Pigafetta, Maximilian of Transylvania & Corrêa 1962, p. 79.
3. Thomaz 2019.
4. Maximiano, Jose Mario Bautista (8 February 2021). "Pigafetta: Eyewitness to birth of Christianity in PH". Inquirer.Net. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
5. A Brief Summary of the First Voyage Around the World by Pigafetta. Retrieved 5 December 2021 – via vbook.pub.
6. ^ Blair & Robertson 1906.

References

• Bausani, Alessandro (1960). "The First Italian-Malay Vocabulary by Antonio Pigafetta". East and West. 11 (4): 229–248. JSTOR 29754279.
• Blair, Emma Helen; Robertson, James Alexander, eds. (1906). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 33: 1519–1522. Ohio, Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company.
• Pigafetta, Antonio; Maximilian of Transylvania; Corrêa, Gaspar (1962). Nowell, Charles E. (ed.). Magellan's Voyage Around the World: Three Contemporary Accounts. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. p. 79.
• Thomaz, Luís Filipe F. R. (2019). "O glossário malaio do cavaleiro Pigafetta" [The Malaysian glossary by the knight Pigafetta]. Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil Galicia e Portugal (in Portuguese). 8: 99–133. doi:10.1344/abriu2019.8.6. hdl:10400.14/32577. S2CID 213668350.

Further reading

• Blagden, C. O. (1931). "Corrigenda to Malay and Other Words Collected by Pigafetta". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 1931 (4): 857–861. JSTOR 25194360.

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