Meaning of missionary-linguist | Babel Free

Definitions

A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.

Examples

“although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship”

“While he had fulfilled what was expected of him as a missionary linguist, his eagerness for the welfare of the Africans led him to occupy himself with other plans”

“the valuable work of the excellent and indefatigable missionary-linguist, the late Father Marcoux, on the Iroquois language, is about to be published by the Bureau of ethnology.”

“Even the famous missionary-linguist J.G. Christaller could not break away from the spell of this 'priestcraft'-theory.”

“Many missionary-linguists leave the familiarity of their home and their social network to go spend many years (often decades) in local communities, learning the local language and local customs and beliefs.”

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