The language of the Sangleys : a Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century / / by Henning Kloter.
Handwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Southern Min or Hokkien, and a spectacular source text for present-day linguistics. Its author, a Spanish Dominican missionary, worked among the Chinese settlers in...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 98 Sinica Leidensia 98. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Early Manila Hokkien: Manuscripts, Language and Metalanguage Introduction
- Hokkien Dialects in European Sources
- Lexicography
- Language and Metalanguage
- Phonology and Orthography
- Early Manila Hokkien: A Mixed Dialect
- The Arte de la Lengua Chio Chiu (BMS): Transcript and Annotated Translation Transcript and Translation
- Appendix: Tone Marking in the Arte and in Douglas (1873)
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates.