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Project / Collection Japanese manuscripts Language English Subject Ryukyuan language

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 40
Title:: English-Loochooan dictionary.
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Japanese, and Okinawan
Date Range:: 1846-1851
Extent:: 1 volume (679 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 41
Title:: Elements or contributions towards a Loochooan & Japanese grammar.
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Japanese, and Okinawan
Date Range:: 1849
Extent:: 1 volume (52 folios)

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