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Ms. Coll. 700 Item 125 Vocablos de la lengua chontal de Oaxaca

Title

Vocablos de la lengua chontal de Oaxaca

Authors

Bliss, John Porter
Noguera, Victor
Pimentel, Francisco, conde de Heras, 1832-1893

Other related names

Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

Call number

Ms. Coll. 700 Item 125
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

bibid: 9940995233503681
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123490372
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4099523

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish and Chontal, with some Chontal of Tabasco

Origin

Probably written in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.

Date: 1875
Place: Cobán, Guatemala?

Summary

A table comparing 26 words in the Chontal language collected by John Porter Bliss in 1871 from the community of San Miguel Ecatepec in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, with other dialects of Chontal. Berendt copied Bliss's list from Francisco Pimentel's Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de los lenguas indigenas de México (v. III, pp. 293-294) and added columns to compare equivalents that he himself collected from the Chontal of Tabasco and the Popoluca de Oluta and that Victor Noguera collected from the Popoluca and Chontal of Nicaragua.

Notes

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r).

Extent

6 leaves : 204 x 128 mm. bound to 210 x 135 mm

Foliation

Paper, 6; [ii, 2, ii]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th-century half leather.

Layout

A table across two facing pages of 26 lines in 6 columns, for Spanish, Chontal de Oaxaca, Chontal de Oaxaca written in what Berendt refers to as an analytical alphabet, Chontal de Tabasco, Popoluca & Chontal de Nicaragua, and Popoluca de Oluta. The first two columns are in black ink, the third through fifth are in red ink, and the sixth, added later and more casually, in black ink.

Script

In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Provenance

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Subjects topical

Chontal language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Languages

Genres

Codices
Glossaries
Manuscripts, Mexican--19th century
Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

Licenses

Text

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URL

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