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The language of the Sangleys [electronic resource] : a Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century / by Henning Kloter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klöter, Henning, 1969-
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia 98.
- Sinica Leidensia ; v. 98
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese language--Dialects--Hokkien.
- Chinese language.
- Chinese language--Middle Chinese, 1200-1919.
- Missions--Linguistic work.
- Missions.
- Southern Min dialects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Manila or “Sangleys”. The first part of The Language of the Sangleys is an in-depth analysis of the Arte in its historical, social and linguistic contexts. The second part offers an annotated transcript and translation of the Arte , including facsimiles of the original manuscript, making this study eminently fit for classroom use. Combining sophisticated theory and method with meticulous philology, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-85197-0
- 90-04-19592-0
- OCLC:
- 821178605
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004195929 DOI
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