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    Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ də ʁɔd]; 15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660), also Đắc Lộ was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and...
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    by Alexandre de Rhodes from the work of various Portuguese Jesuits (among which Gaspar do Amaral, António Barbosa, António de Fontes and Francisco de Pina...
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  • alphabet in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum of Alexandre de Rhodes has 23 letters: In this dictionary, there are fewer letters than...
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  • produced with modal voice phonation (i.e. with "normal" phonation). Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) describes this as "level"; Nguyễn (1997) describes it as "high...
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    (1651) of the Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes. Another famous dictionary of this period was written by Pierre Pigneau de Behaine in 1773 and published...
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    Divers voyages et missions du père Alexandre de Rhodes de la Compagnie de Jésus en la Chine et autres royaumes de l'Orient, avec son retour en Europe par...
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    flourish is known principally from the works of Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes, particularly his trilingual dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum...
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    century (1666), the durian fruit was compared to blanc-mangé by Alexandre de Rhodes: il est plein d'une liqueur blanche, épaisse & sucrée : elle est...
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    missionary, possibly Francisco de Pina or Filipe Sibin. This passage about the letter Đ was later incorporated into Alexandre de Rhodes' seminal Dictionarium Annamiticum...
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    Jesuit lexicographer Alexandre de Rhodes after 12 years in Vietnam. It was published by the Propaganda Fide in Rome in 1651, upon Rhodes's visit to Europe...
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