Author: DIGUET, EDOUARD:
Title: Étude de la langue Taï précédée d'une notice sur les races des hautes régions du Tonkin comprenant grammaire, méthode d'écriture Taî et vocabulaires. Hanoi, F.-H. Schneider, 1895.
Description: . Tall 4to. Pp. (vi), 88, iv, 192, errata iv. With four tables and seven full page plates depicting different tribes (one with tear). Occasionally some minor staining. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, rubbed. First edition. The first part contains a detailed description of the Tai people living in the north western part of Vietnam. The second part is devoted to the grammar; the third to writing; and the fourth and fifth parts comprise vocabularies, also giving the phonetic of Taï words. Scarce. Cordier BI 1779.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, tai, annam, laos, siam, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, language, langue, linguistic, annamese, vietnamese, tai-lao, tai-shan


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