Preliminary Material -- Early Manila Hokkien: Manuscripts, Language and Metalanguage Introduction -- Hokkien Dialects in European Sources -- Lexicography -- Language and Metalanguage -- Phonology and Orthography -- Early Manila Hokkien: A Mixed Dialect -- The Arte de la Lengua Chio Chiu (BMS): Transcript and Annotated Translation Transcript and Translation -- Appendix: Tone Marking in the Arte and in Douglas (1873) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates
Summary
An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics
