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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. 175–186

Romanization in early Japanese Christian texts

A Comparison of manuscripts and prints of Jesuit and Spanish missionary texts

| Mie University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Romanized Japanese: Printed works and manuscripts compared
  • 3.The influence of the romanization in Spanish manuscripts
    • 3.1The consonant coda for closed syllable ‘-t’ of Collado’s texts
    • 3.2The comparison with the manuscripts of Spanish non-Jesuit texts
    • 3.3Collado’s spelling of /tu/
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 2 November 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.06kaw
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