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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. 189–200

Some remarks on Alexandre de Rhodes’s linguistic works on Vietnamese

The influence of João Rodrigues’s Japanese grammars

 | Osaka University, Japan
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Rhodes’s Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651)
  • 3.Rhodes as a learner of the Japanese language
  • 4.De Rhodes’s grammar and Rodrigues’s Japanese grammars compared
    • 4.1Grammatical similarities between Japanese and Vietnamese
    • 4.2Pronunciation
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 November 2021
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