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Date:circa 1650
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Maldonado, Francisco
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 78 leaves
Description: A copy made in 1748 of Maldonado's "Ramilette" or anthology of 12 dialogues, together with a copy of an unknown "Doctrina Christiana" of 1556. Includes grammatical notes and vocabulary. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Culture:
Manche Ch'ol includes: Cholti
Date:1695
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Morán, Francisco, fl. 1625 | Murillo, Thomas
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 282 pages
Description: This is a copy of Morán's "libro grande" (1625-1650), and includes two versions of the grammar (in different hands), confessional materials, and a vocabulary of 500 words which has been added to the others. The first three pages are a narrative of Spanish missions (1689-1692) by Thomas Murillo. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Date:1699
Contributor:Ceron, Francisco | Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Varea, Francisco de.
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Microfilms
Extent:1 volume, 453 pages
Description: Copy of dictionary of late sixteenth-century missionary made by Fray Francisco Ceron. 4,000 Cakchiquel words (Parra's orthography) with equivalents. he original manuscript was sent to the Universidad Mariano Galvéz de Guatemala in 1989. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836. This manuscript is accessible at the APS via microfilm copy.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Date:1826
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)
Date:1969
Contributor:Simeon, George
Subject:Botany | Guatemala--History | Medicine
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 audiocassette (1 hr., 32 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Consists of samples of a larger set of material excerpted by the collector from his original field recordings. Conversations, elicited Vocabularies with Spanish equivalents, and texts in three Guatemalan languages. Recorded in Guatemala in 1969. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Mam, Xinca, and Pocomam Central linguistics (Mss.Rec.91)
Date:circa 1700
Contributor:Coto, Thomás de, d. ca. 1656 | Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 476 leaves
Description: A vocabulary with illustrative examples from early writers; ethnographic data. No other copy known. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Date:circa 1675
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Parra, Francisco de la
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 717 pages
Description: A dictionary of the Kaqchikel language, using the orthography of Fray Francisco de la Parra. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Language:English | Xinca | Zoque, Copainalá
Date:1924
Contributor:Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:4 pages
Description: The Xinca materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Xinca" section of the finding aid, recorded by Roland Dixon in 1924 titled "Zoque and Xinca compared with Penutian" (item Mz.1). This has handwritten additions by Edward Sapir. See also "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages" (item H.4) by Alfred Kroeber, in the "Hokan" section of the finding aid, which consists of vocabularies of 21 English items with equivalents in Yuman, Hokan, Subtiaba, Xinca, Lenca, Chibcha, Guayom, Chibchan, Zoque, and Mixe, taken from published and unpublished sources.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Xinca includes: Xinka
Date:1968-1972, 1976
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:122 pages
Description: The Xinca materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Campbell and Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)