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The pronunciation of the Portuguese of Portugal

Old books about Portuguese orthography and phonology and phonetics

Discovered in March 2005, long after I started this site in 2000.
The Portuguese National Library (Biblioteca Nacional) in its Biblioteca Nacional Digital makes lot of old books in their original edition accessible to the public.
I made a selection of books on the subjects relevant to this project, from old to older.

(The links mostly point to PDF-files, which can be viewed by programs like

FoxitReader (recommended, lean and fast; but it eats resource handles!)
Adobe's Acrobat Reader (not recommended, because it is slow bloatware).

My document selection:

1992: Madureira Feijó, Ortografista do Século XVIII,
Para uma Historia da Ortografia Portuguesa,
by Maria Filomena Gonçalves.
(The book is downloadable as a PDF via this search page, the direct URL above had been blocked and doesn't work.)
1914: Vocabulário ortográfico e remissivo da língua portuguesa, by Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
Essai de phonétique et de phonologie de la langue portugaise d'après le dialecte actuel de Lisbonne, by Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
1903: Portugais - Phonetique et Phonologie - Morphologie - Textes, by Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
1892: Exposição da pronuncia normal portuguesa para uso de nacionais e estrangeiros, by Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
1892: Deux faits de phonologie historique portugaise, by Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
1885: Bases da ortografia portuguesa, by Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu, and Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Vianna.
1878: Reprezentação à Academia Real das Ciências sobre a refórma da ortografia.
1872: Phonologie syntactique du cancioneiro geral, by Jules Cornu.
1868: A lingua portugueza: phonologia, etymologia, morphologia e syntaxe, by Francisco Adolpho Coelho.
1767: Compêndio de orthografia, by Luís de Monte Carmelo.
1736: Orthographia da lingua portugueza, by Luís Caetano de Lima.
1734: Orthographia, ou arte de escrever, ..., by João de Morais Madureira Feijó.
1725: Regras da lingua portugueza, espelho da lingua latina, by Dom Jeronymo Contador de Argote.
1671: Ortografia da lingua portugueza, by João Franco Barreto.
1631: Orthographia ou modo para escrever certo na lingua portuguesa, by Matias Rodrigues and Álvaro Ferreira de Vera.
1576: Orthographia da lingoa portuguesa, by Duarte Nunes de Leão, and João de Barreira.
1540: Grammatica da lingua portuguesa, by João de Barros.
1536: Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa, by Fernando Oliveira (Fernão Doliueira).

See also Google Books, for example searching the old spelling of the word “muito“: muyto.

Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa, and its Biblioteca Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

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