Chontal or Chol materials, American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection
Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Date: 1826
Contributor: Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840
Subject: Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Vocabularies
Extent: 7 pages
Description: The "Chontal" materials in this collection consist of one manuscript listed in the finding aid as item 26, Rafinesque's "Vocabulary of the Chontal language and its dialects reading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien," which includes some commentary on comparative linguistics of indigenous languages of Guatemala. Given his association of the language with Guatemala, the language may be Chol, which he lists as a "Chontal type" in the "The American Nations," published in 1836.
Collection: American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection Mss.497.V85