Diego Collado's ''Grammar of the Japanese Language'' ( la, Ars grammaticae Iaponicae lingvae (i.e. Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae)) is a description of the

Japanese language is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been ma ...

published in 1632, attempting to fit Japanese grammar into a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

grammatical framework. An English translation by Richard L. Spear was published in 1975.

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Diego Collado's ''Grammar of the Japanese Language''
(English translation) Grammar books Grammar of the Japanese Language, Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language, Diego Collado's Japanese dictionaries Late Middle Japanese texts 17th-century Latin books {{Ja-lang-stub