Sources used

— Dingle describes how Sam Pollard used positioning of vowel marks relative to consonants to indicate tone

Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information, and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called...

s — Morrison recounts meeting Sam Pollard and his wife at the Bible Christian Mission in 1894 — reports on an article in The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (UK)

The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...

describing the continuing influence of the work of Sam Pollard after his death — quotes Sam Pollard in his efforts to instil a "new-born sense of shame" into his converts, to curb behaviour that he regarded as being drunkenness and promiscuity — Lemoine reports that after 1949 the Pollard script was retained as a symbol of cultural identity and pride — the School of Oriental and African Studies Library holds most of Sam Pollard's notes, diaries, letters, and papers

Further reading

, also published as:

• • — full Chinese translations of books about the ministry of Po Geli (Sam Pollard) including The Story of the Miao, In Unknown China, Stone Gateway, and the Flowery Miao — Part II includes Norma Diamond's study of Sam Pollard's work — Written by Samuel Pollard's son, a well-known professor of physics and biophysics. "Sermon" 17, The Story of Sam Pollard, written for Atheists offers a very personal look at Sam Pollard's life and motivation
    

    External links

    • Samuel Pollard's family tree
    • The Pollard script
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