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Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language (1703): An English Translation of 'Arte De LA Lengua Mandarina' (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and ... in the History of the Language Sciences)
Francisco Varo's Grammar of the Mandarin Language An English Translation of 'Arte De LA Lengua Mandarina' - 1703 - Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and ... in the History of the Language Sciences Author:Francisco Varo, W. South Coblin, Joseph Abraham Levi This text is the English translation of one of the earliest known descriptive grammars of Mandarin, the language of Chinese officialdom. It was written by Francisco Varo, a Dominican missionary among the first wave of Christians to penetrate into China.