A Dictionary of the Malay Tongue

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Published in 1801, this work is largely based on the first Malay-English dictionary, published 100 years earlier by Thomas Bowrey. A member of the Asiatic Society, although not recognised as a Malay scholar, James Howison seems to have lent his name to this version, produced in order to fill the gap caused by the scarcity of copies of the earlier dictionary. Since the British East India Company established a presence in the Malay Peninsula in 1786, the need for a compendium of working Malay had greatly increased. This reissue brings together the two parts of the dictionary in one volume for bidirectional coverage, and it includes the transliteration, though flawed, of the Arabic script of Jawi. Although superseded by William Marsden's 1812 dictionary and grammar (also reissued in this series), this nevertheless remains an interesting historical document, offering insight into the early colonial study of a language.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

A Dictionary of the Malay Tongue

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1108056369

ISBN-13

9781108056366

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

254B x 178 H x 23 T Millimeter Breite: 254 mm, Höhe: 178 mm, Tiefe: 23 mm

Gewicht

797 Gramm

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