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Viewing articles tagged '1851'
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The first outsiders: Cham, Annam and the missions
Four arrivals over a thousand years, each of which moved the Dega further from the sea, and a fifth — the missions — which moved nobody but changed everything by writing us down. This is the sequence as our records hold it, with the dates the outside chronicles give.
The Kon Tum mission, 1851
On 1 January 1851 a French priest reached a Bahnar village called Kon Phar, having walked in from the coast. The mission that followed produced the first written form of any of our languages, the first dictionary, the first school, and the first outside description of who lived in the highlands and where. It is the beginning of the written recor...
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