Melchor Oyanguren de Santa Inés
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Melchor Oyanguren de Santa Inés
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Melchor Oyanguren de Santa Inés (1688–1747) was a Basque Franciscan missionary and linguist who served in Asia and North America. He wrote grammars of Japanese (1738) and Tagalog (1742). Oyanguren was born in 1688 in Salinas de Léniz in the province of Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa), Spain. As a young man, he joined the Discalced Franciscans. He went to the Philippines in 1717 intending to go on to Japan, but the Japanese policy of Sakoku severely restricted entry to foreigners and he was unable. He went
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2024-04-05T11:53:00Z
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