A dissertation on the nature and character of the Chinese system of writing
Subtitle: in a letter to John Vaughan, Esq.
By: by Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D. ; to which are subjoined, a vocabulary fo the Cochinchinese language, by Father Joseph Morrone, R.C. missionary at Saigon ; with references to plates, containing the characters belonging to each word, and with notes, showing the degree of affinity existing between the Chinese and Cochinchinese languages, and the use they respectively make of their common system of writing, by M. de la Palun ; and A Cochinchinese and Latin dictionary, in use among the R.C. missions in Cochinchina.
Contributors: American Philosophical Society. Committee of History, Moral Science, and General Literature.
Series: Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society -- v. 2.
Publisher: Published for the American Philosophical Society, by M'Carty and Davis
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Missions -- Vietnam.; Chinese language -- Writing.; Vietnamese language -- Dictionaries -- Latin.; Missions -- Vietnam.; Vietnam -- Church history.