Western Mandarin; or, The Spoken Language of Western China: With Syllabic and English Indexes - Couverture rigide

Grainger, Adam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1340824760 ISBN 13 : 9781340824761

Editeur : Palala Press, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The need of a thorough knowledge of the every-day language of the people among whom the writers work lay, and the lack of adequate helps to the attainment of that knowledge, led to the preparation of this vocabulary. Being assured that it would prove of use to his fellow-labourers in Western China, he has arranged it for publication. Scope: The name of the book, The Spoken Language of Western China, indicates pretty clearly the scope of the work It is difficult to draw a line between what is spoken and what is written only. Many phrases used by scholars have been rejected as too bookish but, on the other hand, nothing has been regarded as too common for insertion. The work contains 3,786 characters, 112 duplicate characters, 191 words without characters, and 13,484 examples, including 401 proverbs. The examples have been taken in every case from the lips of the natives. No phrases of foreign origin religious or otherwise have been collected, as students can easily obtain such from other sources. A rrangement: The first and chief part of the work is arranged according to the radicals. The second part, which consists of words without characters, is arranged alphabetically. A syllabic index enables the student to find any word from the sound, and an English index gives the advantages of a very full English-C hinese dictionary. An appendix on relationships, is an attempt to clear up what many have found to be a somewhat perplexing subject. Romanization :T he Romanization used is a modification of the China Inland Mission system. The principal alterations are as follows :k, before i or u, is changed to eft, as in jchiang, orch u; is, before i or u, is changed to sh, as in fshia, or 3shuen ae, i, ei, and eh, are uniformly written e, as in Jg che, fj lue, pe, or pe.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1340824760
• ISBN 13: 9781340824761
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 824
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible