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Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 130] 2021
► pp. 1–76

André Palmeiro’s Epistola (Macau 8/V 1632) cum paradigmate Orationis Dominicae Pater Noster in lingua Sinica, Japonica, Annamitica

A linguistic analysis

| Université de Paris
| Sapienza Università di Roma
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Its authorship and the informants
  • 3.The reception of this text among scholars in pre-Modern Europe
  • 4.The linguistic introduction
    • 4.1Asian languages, glottonyms and linguistic varieties
    • 4.2The Chinese characters (f. 7r)
    • 4.3Romanization (f. 7r)
      • 4.3.1Tone diacritics
      • 4.3.2Aspiration. (f. 7r)
    • 4.4Comparative syntax: Word order (collocatio)(f. 8v)
    • 4.5The lack of relative pronouns (f. 8v)
    • 4.6The tetragrammaton (f. 9r)
    • 4.7Glosses in the margins
  • 5.The romanization systems
    • 5.1Introduction
    • 5.2Japanese
    • 5.3Chinese
    • 5.4Vietnamese
  • 6.Conclusions and final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 2 November 2021
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