Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado
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Msgr Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (8 May 1855 – 4 April 1922) (Romanised Konkani: Sebastav Rodolf Dalgad) was a Catholic priest, academic, university professor, theologian, orientalist, and linguist from Portuguese Goa.
Dalgado distinguished himself as a linguist and etymologist in the study of the influences of língua Portuguesa on a number of languages of southeast Asia. He was a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, elected on 27 July 1911. He also became widely renowned during his lifetime as a Konkani language scholar.