Portuguese missionary grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 / Otto Zwartjes.
From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local langua...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2011. |
| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 117. |
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