A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan
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About This Book
This work is a dictionary of Cebuan Visayan, the language of the central part of the Philippines and much of Mindanao. Although the explanations are given in English, the aim of this work is not to provide English equivalents but to explain Cebuan forms in terms of themselves. It is meant as a reference work for Cebuan-speakers and as a tool for students of the Cebuan language. There is a total of some 25,000 entries and an addenda of 700 forms which were prepared after the dictionary had been composed.
Chapters (56)
- THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM
- PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS USED IN THIS DICTIONARY
- INTRODUCTION
- 1.0 Cebuano
- 1.1 Dialects
- 2.0 Basis of this work
- 2.1 Personnel
- 2.2 Other sources
- 3.0 Phonology and transcription
- 3.2 Transcription
- 4.0 Listing of Entries
- 5.0 Alternations
- 5.1 Morphophonemic alternations
- 5.2 Competing forms
- 6.1 Inflection
- 6.2 Verbal derivation
- 7.0 Classification of roots according to their system of affixation
- 7.1 Active verb classes
- 7.2 Passive verb classes
- A
- B
- D
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Y
- ADDENDA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CEBUANO DICTIONARIES
- CEBUANO GRAMMAR
- FLORA AND FAUNA
- BIRDS
- FISHES AND SHELLFISHES
- INSECTS
- MAMMALS
- PLANTS
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES
- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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