SIL Philippines

Dictionaries and Lexicography

Batad Ifugao Dictionary with Ethnographic Notes Leonard E. Newell & Francis Bon'og Poligon, comps 1993. 744 pp. $30.00
Internationally acclaimed as a model of thoroughness in ethnographic dictionary-making. Useful companion to Handbook on Lexicography.

Handbook on Lexicography Leonard E. Newell. 1995. 368 pp. $15.00
An exposition of sound lexicographical principles and procedures; with examples from Philippine languages.

Manobo Dictionary: of Manobo as spoken in the Agusan river valley and the Diwata mountain range. Teofilo E. Gelacio, Jason K. L. Lee and Ronald L. Schumacher, comps 2000. xii, 208 pp. $8.00  More...

Mapun-English Dictionary Millard A. Collins and Virginia R. Collins, comps. Sulfilix A. Hashim, Mapun language consultant 2001. 703 pp. $15.00
Mapun is a Sama dialect spoken on the island of Cagayan de Tawi-tawi (or Mapun) as well as parts of Palawan and Malaysia.

A Masbatenyo-English Dictionary Elmer P. Wolfenden. 2001. xi, 736 pp. $20.00  More...

Papers from the First Asia International Lexicography Conference Bonifacio Sibayan & Leonard E. Newell, eds 1994. 328 pp. $10.00

Romblomanon Dictionary Leonard E. Newell and Emilia Tarbardilla, comps 2006. xviii, 853 pp. $30.00  More...

Tausug-English Dictionary: Kabtangan Iban Maana. Irene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley & Mary L. Ashley, comps 1994. 2nd ed. xi, 688 pp. $20.00  More...

Tboli-English Dictionary Silin A. Awed, Lillian B. Underwood, Vivian M. Van Wynen, comps 2004. xv, 720 pp. $25.00  More...

Yakan-English Dictionary Dietlinde Behrens, compiler 2002. 610 pp. $30.00
Yakan belongs to the Sama-Badjaw subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages and is spoken by people of the same name who live on Basilan Island as well as on some smaller surrounding islands.  More...