John Van Nest Talmage
John Van Nest Talmage (Chinese: 打馬字; born Somerville, New Jersey, 18 August 1819; died 19 August 1892), is a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, China. He was sent there by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.
His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands.
He wrote:
- Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho·-ha̍k (唐話番字初學, 1852): an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for the Taiwanese language.
- Chinese-English Dictionary (1885): dictionary of Amoy vernacular and English
Chām-gōa liân-kiat
- Forty Years in China (1894) - Talmage ê tōan-kì, Eng-bûn.
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