Arte Da Lingua Malabar

Author	: Jeanne Hein
Publisher	: Harvard Department of South Asian studies
Total Pages	: 332
Release	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 0674727231
ISBN 13	: 9780674727236
Language	: EN, FR, DE, ES & NL

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Arte da Lingua Malabar, a sixteenth-century grammar of Tamil written in Portuguese by a Jesuit missionary, reflects the first linguistic contact between India and the West. This English translation by Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam also includes analysis of the grammar and a description of the political context in which it was written.

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