In:Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 130] 2021
► pp. 175–186
Romanization in early Japanese Christian texts
A Comparison of manuscripts and prints of Jesuit and Spanish missionary texts
Published online: 2 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.06kaw
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.06kaw
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Romanized Japanese: Printed works and manuscripts compared
- 3.The influence of the romanization in Spanish manuscripts
- 3.1The consonant coda for closed syllable ‘-t’ of Collado’s texts
- 3.2The comparison with the manuscripts of Spanish non-Jesuit texts
- 3.3Collado’s spelling of /tu/
- 4.Conclusion
Notes Abbreviations References
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