Afonso Casasnovas

Afonso Casasnovas (11 May 1925 – 17 December 2009) was a Spanish Salesian priest.

Biography Afonso Casasnovas was born on 11 May 1925. He was a missionary in the Brazilian Negro River region, The work was published in 2000, with a second edition released in 2006. Its first part deals with the language's grammar, while the second part focuses on legends and stories, including translations of ten traditional narratives and two more presented only in Portuguese, the language in which they were possibly originally collected. According to Casasnovas, the legends were chosen because they "are still alive in the memory of our people" among the many "that have been written by various authors". In 2001, he taught a course on Nheengatu at the headquarters of the in Manaus, Amazonas.

Works The following is the analysis of a passage from Canasnovas's Nheengatu grammar: