The languages of China before the Chinese
Subtitle: researches on the languages spoken by the pre-Chinese races of China proper previously to the Chinese occupation
By: by Terrien de Lacouperie
Publisher: D. Nutt
Published: 1887
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Chinese language -- History.; Sino-Tibetan languages.; Mon-Khmer languages.; Tai languages.; Sino-Tibetan languages.; China -- Languages.
Notes: The scheme of this book was presented to the Philological Society and read as a part of the president's address at the annual meeting, Friday, May 21st, 1886. The work was published in full in the Philological Transactions of the Philological Society for 1885-1886. A resumé in French was read at the seventh International Congress of Orientalists, Vienna, 1886. cf. Postface.