Author: FRANCKE, AUGUST HERMANN:
Title: Sketch of Ladakhi grammar. In Cooperation with other Moravian Missionaries. Calcutta 1901.
Description: . Pp. (vi), 63. Interleaved copy. Modern marbled boards, calf spine with red title label. First edition. This grammar, probably the first of its kind, was revised by Sir Grierson who also corrected the terminology. Francke was a German missionary who served in Ladakh and Lahul for several years. Later he was appointed the first professor of Tibetan at the Berlin University. Includes an Appendix containing idioms and useful sentences with literal translation. (Published as Extra No. 2 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LXX, part I, 1901). Cordier BS 2938.

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