The language of the Sangleys : a Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century / by Henning Klöter.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-401) and index.

"Handwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Southern Min or Hokkien, and a spectacular source text for present-day linguistics. Its author, a Spanish Dominican missionary, worked among the Chinese settlers in Manila or "Sangleys". The first part of The Language of the Sangleys is an in-depth analysis of the Arte in its historical, social and linguistic contexts. The second part offers an annotated transcript and translation of the Arte, including facsimiles of the original manuscript...."--Publisher info.
Authorship of the Arte, often ascribed to Fray Melchior de Mançano, is questioned in this text.

Online access for Boston College community

Loca access dig.pdf. [Kloter-Sangleys/pdf]

"The 'Bocabulario de la Lengua Sangleya por las Letraz de el A.B.C.' (Manila, ca. 1617) : structure, contents, function" / Hans-Jörg Döhla

Published in Historiographia Linguistica - Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2024 

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Abstract:

The Bocabulario de la Lengua Sangleya por las Letraz de el A.B.C. stands out among the Spanish missionary oeuvres dedicated to the documentation of the Chinese vernacular spoken by the Sangley community in Manila around the year 1600. As opposed to other vocabularies and dictionaries of the same epoch, it contains not only single line Hokkien-Spanish entries, but many additional pieces of linguistic and cultural information including example sentences selected and designed for conversational use during field work regarding proselytization. The Bocabulario is a complex text where several discourse layers can be distinguished, one traced back to the sources utilized by the compilers, another one implemented by the compilers themselves while following their didactic and practical goals, and a last one by the copyists who do not seem to have grown up with the European tradition of scripturality.