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Arte, y vocabulario de la lengua lule, y tonocote.
Madrid: Heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1732
Physical Description: [18], 97, [1], 135, [1], 17, [3] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call number: B732/ M151a
Accession number: 14793
Notes: “Es esta lengua propria, y nativa de cinco naciones muy numerosas, que son Tonocoté, Lule, Yxistiné, Toquistiné, y Oristiné; sola la primera tiene oy mas de cinquenta mil almas, y todas Infieles, que viven en lo interior del Chaco sobre las riberas del rio Pilcomayo” (p. 1, 2nd count). General remarks on the language are followed by grammatical study in Spanish with Lule examples (p. 1-91), concluding with a list of kinship terms in Lule with Spanish equivalents (p. 92-97). Followed by “Vocabulario de la lengua tonocoté, y lulé (p. 1-135), listing over 2000 terms in Spanish with Lule or Tonocote equivalents (printed in 3 columns: for verbs, indicative and imperative forms in Lule are given in two columns next to each Spanish infinitive). Also contains "Catecismo, y doctrina christiana en lengua lule, y Tonocoté" in Lule with Spanish headings (p. 1-13, at end) and a bilingual catechism (p. 14-17. Censura, dated 1729, by Padre Juan Montijo, missionary among the Lule Indians for three years at the Mission de Miraflores (p. [5], 1st count).
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Languages: Lule
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Dictionary / Grammar
Region: Spanish America
