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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. 129–152

The Vocabolario Italiano-Cinese of Joseph M. Pruggmayr (OCD; 1713–1791)

| Università degli Studi di Firenze
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Joseph M. Pruggmayr (OCD; 1713–1791)
  • 3.Pruggmayr’s language skills and works
  • 4. The vocabolario Italiano-cinese (VIC)
    • 4.1Physical description
    • 4.2The history of the manuscript
    • 4.3Contents and nature of the work
      • 4.3.1The Chinese language
      • 4.3.2The Chinese ‘Accents’
      • 4.3.3The romanization system
      • 4.3.4On the different pronunciations of standard Chinese
      • 4.3.5One grammatical note and some examples
  • 5.Some open questions and observations
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 November 2021
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