The ''Vocabulario de la lengua bicol'' (Spanish for ''Vocabulary of the Bicol language'') is a list of vocabulary of the
Bicol language, collected by
Mark of Lisbon when he was assigned to
Bicol Region
The Bicol Region, designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines. It comprises six Provinces of the Philippines, provinces, four on the Bicol Peninsula (the luzon#Southeastern Luzon, southeastern end of Luzon): Albay, Ca ...
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Philippines
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Lisboa, a
Franciscan friar, resided in the Philippines from 1586 until 1618. He served in
Ambos Camarines, where
Bicol was widely spoken, from sometime between 1592 and 1602 until 1616. Lisboa died in Mexico in 1628. The ''Vocabulario ''was first published posthumously in 1754. A second edition of the ''Vocabulario'' was published in 1865 under the expressed order of Bishop
Francisco Gainza. It contained 10,495 (Bikol-Español) word entries in 417 pages using x paper and 5,588 entries in the (Español-Bicol) section in 103 pages. Realubit describes the Bicol vocabulary as "broad in social scale and localization", but criticizes Lisboa's presentation of
grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a grammatical category, category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their grammatical conjugation, conjugation patterns.
The main tenses found ...
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affix
In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are Morphological derivation, derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as ''un-'', ''-ation' ...
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parts of speech
In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are as ...
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References
Further reading
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External links
*{{Cite web, url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/bikol.php, title=Bikol/Bicol, website=Omniglot, access-date=May 27, 2018
Bikol languages
Filipino dictionaries
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