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Title continues: '...with many phrases in the higher style of the literati, and a glossary of derivatives from the Chinese language'. A dictionary of the Ryukyuan language by the Protestant missionary Bernard Jean Bettelheim. Undated but a reference in Bettelheim's journal records that he comp...
Elements or contributions towards a Loochooan & Japanese grammar.
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A grammar of the Ryukyuan language by the Protestant missionary Bernard Jean Bettelheim. Originally entitled 'Elements or contributions towards a Japanese grammar', with 'Loochooan &' being added later. Preface dated: Nafa [Naha], 4 September 1849.
The Divan of Nava'i without preface. The first five ghazals, out of twenty-two rhyming in alif, are the same as in Or. 401 and are in the same order. The rest of the volume shows a considerable degree of agreement with the same copy, from which it chiefly differs by frequent omissions. Content...