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Date:1950-1972
Contributor:Albó, Xavier, 1934- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Zuidema, R. Tom, (Reiner Tom), 1927-2016 | Farfán, José M. B. | Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | American Bible Society | Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001 | Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939-
Subject:Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography | Archaeology | Folklore | South America--History | Religion
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Grammars | Vocabularies | Notes | Sketches
Description: The Aymara materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of comparative linguistics and studies of kinship in Series II. Of particular interest are the audio recordings in Series VII on the folklore of the Ayar Incas. The correspondence, in Series I, contains information of the geographic distribution of the language, Lounsbury's analysis of the language and its relationship to Quechua, Christian scriptures in Aymara, Morris Swadesh's work on genetic classification of Native American languages, and geographic distribution of Aymara population.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Aymara includes: Aimara
Date:1988, 1991
Contributor:Briggs, Lucy Therina | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Aymara item is correspondence with Lucy Briggs on a Spanish-language Aymara grammar (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Date:1590-1976
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Diaries | Dictionaries | Grammars | Maps | Reports | Theses | Field notes | Stories
Extent:26 reels
Description: This collection includes field notes and reports, diaries of expeditions, texts, grammars, dictionaries of Indian languages, theses and research papers collected by members of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago in connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Research Program as well as various Central American governmental agencies. A microfilm publication of the University of Chicago, 1946-1957. Table of contents. Originals at theUniversity of Chicago.
Collection:Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976 (Mss.Film.297)
Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Language:English | Spanish | Tequistlateco
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Garrida, Carmen de
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
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)
Culture:
Mazatec includes: Ha Shuta Enima, Mazateco
Language:English | Spanish | Mazatec (macrolanguage)
Date:1922-1930, 1939-1940, 1942
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Johnson, Jean B. (Jean Bassett) | Rosas, José
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Field notes | Maps | Vocabularies
Extent:663 pages
Description: The Maztec materials in the ACLS collection consist of items found in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Mazatec" section, "Cuento mazateco, contado por José Rosas" (OtM.1) includes a grammatical sketch and text, "Cuento de venado y de sapos," with free translations and grammatical notes. "Informe de la investigacion Mazateca" (item OtM.2) gives a summary of phonetics; report of field-work plans; outline of ethnographic problems. In the "Mexico" section of the finding aid, McQuown's "Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico" (item AM3) includes some Mazatec vocabulary, as does "Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico" (item AM5). In the "Zapotec" section, "Estudio gramatical de las lenguas de la familia zapoteca" (item Z.1) includes analysis of Mazatec, proposing its inclusion in the Zapotecan language family. The exact varieties of Mazatec are not identified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Mixe includes: Ayuukjä'äy
Date:1922, circa 1932
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Grammars | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:57 pages
Description: The Mixe materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 items in the "Mixe" section of the finding aid recorded by Jaime de Angulo. Among these these three items (MzM.1, MzM.2 and MzM.3) there are two texts, "El Cuento del Moro" and "The Ungrateful Toad", a grammatical sketch, and vocabulary. The specific Mixe language or languages in the material is not currently identified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Nahuatl, Highland Puebla | Nahuatl, Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla | Spanish | Nahuatl, Northern Puebla
Date:1605, 1649, 1970-1979
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Higgins, F. R. | Knab, Timothy | Nutini, Hugo G.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Grammars | Maps | Reports
Extent:1101 pages
Description: The Nahua materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 8 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed Campbell, Higgins, Knab, and Nutini.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan | English | Spanish
Date:ca.1940s-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Canger, Una | Karttunen, Frances | Campbell, Lyle | Lockhart, James | Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Language study and teaching | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Coyote tales | Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Poems | Field notes | Stories
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Nahuatl materials are sizeable and cover his entire research life, mostly consisting of his own work from the 1960s and 1990s (Series 4), and many copies of small publications throughout his life (Series 2). Of note in the small publications is almost every issue of “Nahua Newsletter” (Indiana University) between 1986 and 2004, issues 1-18 of “Mexihkatl Itonalama”, and several 1940s-1960s SIL-archived publications. From his own work (Series 4) are interlinear glosses of Nahuatl texts, materials in preparation for taught courses at UCLA, products of brief fieldwork in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, 1966, working versions of two of his own publications, and further linguistic analysis. He also corresponded with several linguists on Nahuatl varieties (Series 1), including Una Canger, who gave him a copy of the Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1990-2000
Contributor:Rosenthal, Jane M. | Loaysa, Balthasar Xavier | Lombardo, Natal | Shaul, David | Betancourt, Ignacio Guzman
Subject:Linguistics | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Drafts | Correspondence | Translations
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: Throughout the 1990s, Jane Rosenthal conducted research at the Archivo General de Mexico and Newberry Library of Chicago on the life and work of Natal Lombardo. This included researching and attempting to produce a facsimile of his “Arte de la Lengua Teguima”, and identifying one document, previously attributed to him, to actually be of Eudeve by Balthasar Xavier Loaysa. Two publications resulted from this. Materials surrounding this include research notes and xeroxes of source materials (Series 2 Subseries 3; Series 5), correspondence (Series 1; Series 5), and digital materials (Series 9). See the description of Series 2 Subseries 3 for more details.
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)
Culture:
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:English | Spanish | Otomi, Temoaya
Date:1912-1950
Contributor:McQuown, Norman A. | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Grammars | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:2 slips, 80 pages
Description: The Otomi materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials mainly in the "Otomi" section of the finding aid. Key items includes Radin's "Grammatical sketch of Otomi" (item OtO.1) and "Otomi-English dictionary" (item OtO.2), based upon the Toluca dialect (Temoaya Otomi). Also in this section are the "Sintesis de la discusion en el consejo de lenguas indigenas sobre el alfabeto Otomi" (item OtO.3) and a brief vocabulary by Sapir (item OtO.4). In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Otomi vocabulary, and McQuown's “Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico” (AM3), which includes Otomi information.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)