Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Central America materials, ACLS collection

Date: 1936

Contributor: Loukotka, Cestmir, 1895-1966

Subject: Linguistics | Central America--History

Type: Text

Extent: 20 pages

Description: The "Central America" section of the ACLS collection consists of one item, "Intrusion de los idiomas centroamericanos en el America del Sur" (item AS1). Written in Spanish, it is a comparative study of loans from Central American languages (no further detail in the metadata) into those of South America, with a vocabulary of 72 items. Prepared for publication, but unprinted. Other materials relating to specific Central American languages, such as Lenca and Xinca, are found under separate entries.

Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c

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