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DORES (Rafael das). DICCIONARIO Teto-Português. Lisboa. 1907. - DORES (Rafael das) DICCIONARIO Teto-Português . Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1907. XII, 248 pp.; 235 mm. Dictionary of Tetum (or Teto), the main Timorese language, authored by Father Rafael das Dores, with a preface by the philologist A.R. Gonçalves Viana, published by the National Press. Intended for civil servants and Portuguese missionaries serving in Timor, so that they could learn the local language, the dictionary results from the author's observations begun in 1871 and succeeds his Diccionario Chorographico de Timor , from 1903. In this work, Dores no longer treats Tetum as a simple dialect, but as a language in its own right, and records, by comparison with the previous dictionary by Aparício da Silva (1889), more than a thousand Portuguese words that have since been incorporated into the Timorese vocabulary. It constitutes one of the first and most important lexicographical instruments of the Tetum language. Unusual and highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate