...Andrew Gaudio The oldest known surviving grammar of quốc ngữ , called the Linguae Annamiticae seu Tunchinensis brevis declaratio , was published in 1651 in Rome and written in Latin by French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes. Presented here is the first complete English translation of de...

...Ly Thi Kieu Pham The objective of this paper is to analyze the first two Vietnamese grammars written in Latin: (1) Linguae Annamiticae seu Tunchinensis Brevis Declaratio (1651), by Alexandre de Rhodes; and (2) Manuductio ad linguam Tunckinensem, a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century anonymous...