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  • Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language, with marginal notes showing its relation to the Chinese, from A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, in a letter to John Vaughan, Esq., American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1838. Pp. 139-184 & 5 plates of Cochinchinese ideogram illustration.

    Reformatted by Ngô Thanh Nhàn (US), Mai Bá Triều (Belgium) & Lương Thị Hạnh (Nôm Na Group, Việt Nam): (a) the second column Chars. is inserted to reflect the corresponding ideograms in the plates, and (b) the fourth line in column Cochinchinese in square brackets to reflect the current spelling with accents for the entry heading on line 1.

    333 Cochinchinese vocabulary items:
    Preliminary observations, by M. de la Palun
    I.—Of The Heavens.
    II.—Of Time.
    III.—Of The World, &c.
    IV.—Of Mankind.
    V.—Of The Human Mind and Body.
    VI.—Of Clothing.
    VII.—Of The House.
    VIII.—Of The Tables, &c.
    IX.—Of Animals.
    X.—Of Numbers.
    XI.—Of Various Things.


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