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Language:Spanish
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:15 pages
Description: One of various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). This item, "Algo de lengua mexicana, y de la explicacion de Algunos geroglificos," is a brief essay on phonology, dialectical differences, and an explanation of some hieroglyphics.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Culture:
Mixe includes: Ayuukjä'äy
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Chocho includes: Chocholteco, Chochotec, Chochon, Ngigua, Ngiwa
Language:English | Spanish | Mixe | Chocholtec | Klamath-Modoc | Chontal, Highland Oaxaca
Date:1895-1902
Contributor:Belmar, Francisco, 1859-1910
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Language study and teaching | Mexico--History | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items by Mexican linguist Francisco Belmar. The first item, "Las lenguas habladas por Los Indigenos and Indian tribes of the state of Oaxaca and their languages," includes a lengthy exposition on Mexican languages, emphasizing relationships with, and discussing Mixe, Zoque, Chontal, and Chochotec (intended for delivery at a session of the International Congress of Americanists, 1895, but never delivered) and a pencil draft of Belmar (1902) [See also Belmar (1902)]. The second item, "Curso de Lengua Mixe," is a brief elementary textbook for teaching Mixe to Spanish speakers, complete with exercises, texts, and lexical comments.
Collection:Writings on Mexican languages, 1895-1902 (Mss.497.4.B412c)