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Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language

by Diego Collado

Level C2 · ProficientHistorical10 chapters
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About this book

Explore the early 17th-century Japanese language through a detailed Latin grammar that applies classical Latin frameworks to a non-Indo-European tongue, offering unique insights into missionary linguistics and the origins of descriptive grammar.

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Contents

10 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02Preface
03Introduction
04IN GRATIAM ET ADIVTORIVM eorum, qui prædicandi Euangelij causa ad Iaponiæ Regnum se…
05ROMÆ, Typis & impensis Sac. Congr. de Propag. Fide. MDCXXXII. SVPERIORVM PERMISSV.
06FOR THE SAKE AND HELP of those who wish to go to the Kingdom of Japan to preach the…
07Prologue to the Reader
08Japanese Arithmetic and Numerical Matters Concerning Which Much Painful Labor Is Required
09Some Rules on the Conjugation of the Verb in the Written Language
10Works Consulted

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