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Chontal, Oaxaca
Alternate forms: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Language(s): English | Spanish | Tequistlateco
Type:Text
Genre: Grammars
Extent: 24 pages
Description: The Chontal materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Chontal" section of the finding aid, "Cuento y frases en idioma Chontal (Tequistlateco)." This item is in Tequistlatec, Spanish and English, and includes a grammatical sketch, 11 phrases with notes, and 1 text, "El Cuento del Perrito," given by Doña Carmen de Garrida of the village of Tequisistlán.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: circa 1925-1950
Type:Text
Genre: Notes | Essays
Extent: 2 folders
Description: Two items relating to the Chontal language of Oaxaca, Mexico have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are both in Subcollection I, and consist of Viola Waterhouse's essay "Oaxaca Chontal Phonemes" in Series IV. Works by Others; and a Chontal folder of mostly typed linguistic notes regarding nouns, phonemes, and morphemes in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. A version of Waterhouse's article was published in the International Journal of American Linguistics 16(1):35-39, 1950.
Collection: C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: ca. 1955
Contributor: Moser, Edward W.
Type:Text
Extent: 0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Chontal (unidentified variety, likely a form of Oaxaca Chontal) materials consist solely of possible cognates between Seri, Chontal, Karuk and Quechan, by Edward W. Moser (Series 1).
Collection: William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Language(s): Chol | English
Date: 1826
Type:Text
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)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: 1967
Extent: 11 sound tape reels (16 hr., 50 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in various locations in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico in the summer of 1967 by Paul R. Turner with numerous Highland Chontal speakers. Elicitations of Highland Chontal words and phrases, using a common Spanish word list for all consultants. (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: Highland Chontal Dialect Survey (Mss.Rec.61)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: 1968
Extent: 4 sound tape reels (2 hr., 58 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in San Matias Petacaltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in the September of 1968, with consultants Damian Flores (age 25), Clemente Zarate (47), and Porfirio Nicolas Flores (90). Folkloric, ethnohistorical, and autobiographical stories and discussions, some in Spanish only, some in Highland Chontal only. (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: Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials (Mss.Rec.66)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: 1971
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 3 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The Highland Chontal material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of recordings in "Series 6: Chontal" that are readings of entries from Paul R. Turner and Shirley Turner's "Dictionary: Chontal to Spanish-English, Spanish to Chontal." (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: James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Alternate forms: Chontales
Date: 1966, 1968
Type:Text
Extent: 366 pages
Description: The Highland Chontal materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items, all listed under "Turner, Paul." This includes Turner's dissertation, "Highland Chontal Grammar," which includes interlinear texts of stories on a related recording collection. "Highland Chontal Dialect Survey" provides a detailed account of a project of Turner's for which there is an accompanying audio collection, listed separately in this guide. Finally, there is also a newspaper clipping on consultant Clemente Zarate's visit to the U.S.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: 1965-1966
Extent: 3 sound tape reels (5 hr., 24 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Folkloric texts and conversation in Highland Chontal. Recorded by Paul R. Turner in 1965 and 1966, in Norman, Oklahoma, with Clemente Zarate of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tape 3 was submitted with collector's doctoral dissertation. (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: Highland Chontal Texts (Mss.Rec.52)

Chontal, Oaxaca
Date: undated
Subject: Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent: 0.2 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' only Tequistlatecan item is a lexical slip file authored by Elizabeth Trangott, containing around 775-1550 slips, with some additions by Haas at the end. There is also correspondence relating to this item. Both can be found in Series 9.
Collection: Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)