Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Earliest Missionary Grammar of TamilCondition: NewDescription: Arte da Lingua Malabar is a grammar of the Tamil spoken in the sixteenth century by the Parava pearl fisher community on the east coast of South India between Kanyakumari and Rameswaram. Fr. Henrique Henriques, S.J., a Portuguese Jesuit missionary to South India, was the first diligent student of Tamil from Europe. He wrote this grammar in Portuguese around 1549 CE for the benefit of his colleagues engaged in learning the local language for spreading their religious beliefs. Consequently, Arte da Lingua Malabar reflects the first linguistic contact between India and the West.This grammar is unique in many aspects. It is not based on traditional Indian grammars; rather, it uses Latin grammatical categories to describe sixteenth-century Tamil. The effort to describe a language (Tamil) in terms of an unrelated language (Portuguese) has resulted in several inaccuracies in transliteration and scribing. Yet, Arte da Lingua Malabar is the best evidence for showing how sixteenth-century Tamil was heard and written by a sixteenth-century Portuguese. This English translation by Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam also includes analysis of the grammar and a description of the political context in which it was written.Author: V. S. RajamContributor: V. S. Rajam (Translated with commentary by), Jeanne Hein (Translated with commentary by)Country/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780674727236Format: HardbackGenre: Language & ReferenceISBN: 9780674727236ISBN-10: 0674727231Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Harvard University Department of South Asian StudiesRelease Date: 08/26/2013Book Series: Harvard Oriental SeriesSubtitle: Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and AnalysisRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Author: V. S. Rajam
Book Title: The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil
Contributor: Jeanne Hein (Translated with commentary by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780674727236
Format: Hardback
Genre: Language & Reference
ISBN: 9780674727236
ISBN-10: 0674727231
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Language: English
Publication Name: The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil
Publisher: Harvard University Department of South Asian Studies
Release Date: 08/26/2013
Release Year: 2013
Series: Harvard Oriental Series
Subtitle: Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and
Title: The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil
