Ē-MN̂G IM Ê JĪ-TIÁN 廈門音個字典 [Dictionary of the Amoy Dialect] Amoy, 1894

著者(Author)：打馬字牧師 John Van Nest Talmage (Ta-ma-ji Bok-su)

出版元(Publisher)：Kó-lōng-sū Chūi-keng tông ìn, Ē-mn̂g (Amoy)

刊行年(Publishing Date)：1894

ページ数(Pages)：469

裝幀(Binding)：Hardcover

コンディション(Condition)：Good

サイズ(Size)：24.2x19cm

Ē-Mn̂g Im ê Jī-tián (廈門音個字典), published in 1894 at the 鼓浪語萃經堂(Kó-lōng-sū Chūi-keng tông) in Amoy (Xiamen), is a major early dictionary of the Amoy dialect compiled by the American Reformed Church missionary Rev. John Van Nest Talmage (1819–1892), known in Chinese as 打馬字. Talmage, who worked in Xiamen for more than four decades, was one of the most influential promoters of the Amoy vernacular and its Pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanization.

Written entirely in vernacular Romanized Amoy, the dictionary contains over 6,300 characters arranged alphabetically, with definitions and usage examples, together with radical indexes and supplementary corrections. Published two years after Talmage’s death, it served as an important foundation for William Campbell’s later Ē-mn̂g-im Sin Jī-tián (廈門音新字典, 1913), the most comprehensive dictionary of the Amoy vernacular in the early twentieth century.

Signed by the American journalist and travel writer William Eleroy Curtis, “W. E. Curtis / Penang, S.S. / April 16, 1897.”
Front and rear covers detached; light foxing internally.

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