Author talk:Jonathan Rigg
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Biographical sources[edit]
Lia Maulia Indrayani (July 2, 2011), "Language Vitality: A Case on Sundanese Language as a Surviving Indigenous Language" (PDF link), p. 33
- Says "First, Jonathan Rigg, for example, an English planter working in West Java in 19th century, compiled the first Sundanese-English dictionary."
- Indrayani from the Faculty of Letters, Universitas Padjdjaran; apparently presented at the International Seminar "Language Maintenance and Shift", 2011.
AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:22, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- Another: Moriyama, Mikihiro (2005). Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java. NUS Press. p. 18. ISBN 9789971693220.
The first foreign-language dictionary for the Sundanese language came out in 1862, titled A Dictionary of the Sunda Language of Java. Its compliler, Jonathan Rigg, was an English tea-planter who lived south of Buitenzorg (the current Bogor).
- AdamBMorgan (talk) 12:44, 6 February 2013 (UTC)