Manchu grammar

by Liliya M. Gorelova

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First edition

Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 600; fine copy in original printed laminate boards. Issued as volume VII in the publisher's Handbook of Oriental Studies series. A comprehensive grammar of Manchu, the official language in China during the Qing dynasty 1644-1912 , covering the writing system, morphology, phonology, and syntax. With special attention for the relation of classical Manchu with its dialect Sibe, a direct successor of

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