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'''Manuel da Assumpção''' (then spelled ''Manoel da Assumpçam'') was a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[missionary]] who wrote the first grammar of the [[Bengali language]], in 1743, titled "Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez" (''Vocabulary of Bengali language and Portuguese. Divided into two parts'') (archaic {{lang-pt|Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez. Dividido em duas partes}}).<ref name="Banglapedia 2003">Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003.</ref><br />
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==Grammar and dictionary==<br />
The grammar was written in the [[Portuguese language]]. Assumpção wrote this first grammatical instructions of the Bengali language between 1734 and 1742 while in [[Bhawal estate]], now in [[Bangladesh]]. The book was published in 1743 in [[Lisbon]]. The grammar was based on the model of the [[Latin grammar]] and used [[Latin script]] for writing Bengali words.<ref name="Banglapedia 2003"/><br />
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==Crepar Xastrer Orth, Bhed==<br />
Manuel da Assumpção wrote another book under the title “Crepar Xastrer Orth, Bhed” (কৃপার শাস্ত্রের অর্থ-ভেদ). It was a bilingual book Crepar Xastrer Orth, Bhed, / Cathecismo da Doutrina Christãa (Bengali / Portuguese) written in 1735 in Bhawal estate in Bengal, now Bangladesh and published in Lisbon in 1743. It was a missionary book, in format a dialogue between a clergyman and his disciple. The main text was printed on the right page while the translation in [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]] appeared on the left. The whole book was, however, printed in Roman type.<ref>Iffat Ara, Janar Ace Onek Kichu, 1999, Deshprokashon, Dhaka.</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Rahman |first=Aminur |year=2012 |chapter=Grammar |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Grammar |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}<br />
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