The first standard grammar of Malay; George Werndly’s 1736 Maleische spraakkunst

A brief biography of George Henrik Werndly and description of contemporaneous development of linguistics is followed by a perusal of Melchior Leydekker’s and Petrus van der Vorm’s policy of strictly using Classical Malay in Christian publication, that served as basis of Werndly’s work. Then, a detai...

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Main Author: Waruno Mahdi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Indonesia 2018-10-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/644