PAMBU-DOC17 - Dictionnaire de Mekeo

Father Gustave Desnoes, MSC, a Frenchman, was born in 1888. He went to Papua as a missionary in 1906 and returned to France in 1927 because of poor health. This dictionary was compiled from language notes made by more than a dozen priests. Fr. Desnoes compiled the dictionary and completed his transcription of the Mekeo dictionary in 1933 at La Betheline, Chateau Gombert. Typing of the manuscript was completed at Veifa'a in 1942. A dictionary in French of the Mekeo language of Papua, originally in 10 books and recopied in two volumes. Reel 1: Vol.1 - completed in 1933. Typed in 1941. Entries A - I Reel 2: Vol.2 - completed August 8, 1933. Typed in 1942. Entries K - U. The digitisation of these microfilms was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.. Language as given: Mekeo

法国籍圣心传教士会（Missionaries of the Sacred Heart，MSC）神父古斯塔夫·德努瓦，1888年诞生。1906年，他以传教士身份前往巴布亚地区，1927年因健康状况欠佳返回法国。本词典由十余位神父留存的语言笔记汇编而成，经德努瓦神父编纂整理，并于1933年在戈贝尔城堡拉贝蒂内修道院（La Betheline, Chateau Gombert）完成梅科语（Mekeo）词典的誊录工作。手稿的打字排版作业于1942年在韦伊法阿（Veifa'a）完成。该词典为法语版巴布亚梅科语词典，原版分为10卷，后被重抄为两册。微卷1：第1卷——1933年完成誊录，1941年完成打字排版，收录词条范围为A-I。微卷2：第2卷——1933年8月8日完成誊录，1942年完成打字排版，收录词条范围为K-U。这批微缩胶片的数字化项目由澳大利亚研究理事会语言动力学卓越中心（ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language）资助。本数据集涉及的语言为梅科语。