Pedro de Montoya

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Pedro de Montoya was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and linguist known for his influential early 17th-century Guaraní grammar and dictionary in colonial Paraguay.

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instanceOf Catholic missionary
Spanish Franciscan missionary
linguist
person
activityLocation colonial Paraguay
centuryOfActivity 17th century
contributedTo Christian missions among Guaraní-speaking peoples
documentation of the Guaraní language
countryOfActivity Paraguay
ethnolinguisticFocus Guaraní people
linked to: Guarani peoples
fieldOfWork Guaraní grammar
Guaraní lexicography
missionary linguistics
historicalContext Spanish colonial period in South America
knownFor early 17th-century Guaraní dictionary
early 17th-century Guaraní grammar
work on the Guaraní language
languageStudied Guaraní
nationality Spanish
notableWorkType dictionary
grammar
occupation linguist
missionary
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
religiousOrder Order of Friars Minor

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Montoya hasNotableBearer Pedro de Montoya