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 lots 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. 
- 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. 
- 1883: Essai de phonétique et de phonologie de la langue portugaise d’après le dialecte actuel de Lisbonne, by 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. 
- 1590: Regras que ensinam a maneira de escreuer a orthographia da lingua portuguesa, by Pero de Magalhães Gândavo. 
- 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.
Copyright © 2005-2008 by
R. Harmsen.