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- Title
El Diccionario de las Gobernaciones Nacionales (1942): Toponimia Patagónica en lenguas indígenas registrada por intelectuales territorianos.
- Authors
Soledad Domínguez, Verónica
- Abstract
In 1935 the National Council of Education (CNE) collected information for a Geographic Dictionary of the National Governments via a circular addressed to school inspectors. The initiative was carried out with the contributions of teachers from the national territories. Among them were territorian intellectuals like Tomás Harrington and Juan Benigar, who determined the ethimos of toponymy in indigenous languages in the dictionary. Toponymy, a textual genre generally cultivated by amateurs, became an editorial initiative carried out by the CNE. Its objective was to make the various regions of the country known at a national level and to struggle for the consolidation of "national unity". The Dictionary was published in two volumes in 1941 and 1942. The second of them compiles the toponymy of the Territories of La Pampa, Río Negro, Neuquén, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. In this article we will describe the dictionary and its configuration, analyze the role of the CNE and the networks of teachers who collaborated with it and, fundamentally, recover the contributions to the knowledge of indigenous languages in the Patagonian region.
- Subjects
PATAGONIANS; INDIGENOUS languages of the Americas; INTELLECTUALS; TOPONYMY; LEXICOGRAPHY
- Publication
Boletín de Filología, 2022, Vol 57, Issue 2, p253
- ISSN
0067-9674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4067/s0718-93032022000200253