A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Chounavel was ordained in Marseilles in 1852 and received orders to take up a post in the North American Arctic. His posting was changed at the last minute and he was sent to Sri Lanka instead. After a year, he was sent to Batticaloa as a lone missionary and completed his most important work, this grammar, as well as a translation of the bible, and numerous other works in Sinhalese and Tamil. Chounavel strives to clarify the peculiars of Sinhalese grammar through the provision of numerous examples. The work includes a considerable amount of vocabulary broken down into parts of speech.

• Year: 1886

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