The Homophony Syllabary of Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect《广州方言读本》
Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect《广州方言读本》was written by Elijah Coleman Bridgman,a famous American missionary to China,and published in 1841.This book provides a detailed and complete record of the phonological system of Guangzhou dialect around the 1840s.This paper describes its phonological system and lists the homophony syllabary.
Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect《广州方言读本》the 19th centuryGuangzhou dialectthe phonological systemthe homophony syllabary