Dear Frederick, Many thanks for sharing the link to the Danish-Halle archive, which I encourage everyone to explore. This corpus of documents has been of great use to me in the past, especially the missionaries' comments about the use of the Portuguese language in (South) India. One paper which makes substantial use of these materials is the one below, about linguistic variation among the Portuguese-speaking communities of the region:
https://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-5-2014/factoring-sociolinguistic-variation-into-the-history-of-indo-portuguese All the best, Hugo Cardoso Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> escreveu (sábado, 14/03/2026 à(s) 23:03): > QUOTE The Danish-Halle mission, established in 1706, is the first > organized missionary undertaking in the history of the Protestant Church. > The extensive written records of this undertaking have an enormous > significance for research on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. > In a project supported by the German Research Foundation > <http://www.dfg.de/> (DFG) the archival holdings of the Francke > Foundations at Halle and of the Evangelical-Lutheran Mission in Leipzig > were systematically opened up again between 2003 and 2005 and were made > publicly available in an online-database. UNQUOTE > > > https://fas.francke-halle.de/cgi-bin/dhmeng.pl?x=u&t_show=x&wertreg=ORT&wert=goa&reccheck=8720,12969,14198,14248,15720,23095,27260 > > PS: Search the archives also for "Portugal", which mentions the 1755 > tsunami, etc.... [In 18th-century Portuguese and European accounts, it was > usually described as a *“maremoto”* (seaquake), *“dilúvio”* (deluge), > *“inundação”* (flood), or simply *great sea waves*. The Japanese term > *tsunami* only entered international scientific vocabulary in the late > 19th–20th centuries.] > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ Frederick Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا > _/ AUDIO https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha > _/ http://goa1556.in +91-9822122436 784 Saligao Goa > _/ Goanet :: 30 years of discussions. [email protected] > _/ http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2Bmqab_sQbgK-T2O-9-mCpyix2o5Ob_JtcTHOLmz6nqdH3ga-w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2Bmqab_sQbgK-T2O-9-mCpyix2o5Ob_JtcTHOLmz6nqdH3ga-w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAH8WUhPA85ecN85C4f49t9L%3D0Fqq_O7YNQSTdP09rHEQ%3DtOumA%40mail.gmail.com.
