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Francisco Varo's Glossary of the Mandarin Language Vol. 1: An English and Chinese Annotation of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina Vol. 2: Pinyin and English Index of the Vocabulario de la Lengua Mandarina
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Western missionaries contributed largely to Chinese lexicography. Their involvement was basically a practical rather than a theoretical one. In order to preach and convert, it was necessary to speak Chinese. A missionary on post needed to learn at least two languages, the national Guanhua, the "language of the officials" or "Mandarin," and the local vernacular. The first lexicographical work by... Read more
Francisco Varo's Glossary of the Mandarin Language
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