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Arte de lengua mexicana.
Puebla de los Angeles: Imprenta nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689
Physical Description: [6], 42 leaves : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: B689/ V393a [R]
Accession number: 06069
Notes: Preliminaries and grammatical discussion in Spanish, with examples and paradigms in Nahuatl. Includes a section on numerical terms and various counting systems for animate and inanimate objects, and names of colors (leaves 28 recto-32 recto); “Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana, y castellana” with the Ten Commandments and a list of kinship terms (leaves 33 recto-39 recto), in both Nahuatl and Spanish; and “Cathecismo breve de lo que pressisamente deve saber el Christiano, en lengua mexicana” in Nahuatl (leaves 39 recto-42 verso).
Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
