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Confessonario [sic] en lengua mixe. Con vna construccion de las oraciones de la doctrina christiana, y un compendio de voces mixes, para enseñarse â pronunciar la dicha lengua.
Puebla [de los Angeles]: Widow of Miguel de Ortega, 1733
Physical Description: [16], 148, [4] p. : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Call number: B733/ Q7c
Accession number: 04443
Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish. Text of Confessonario [sic] (p. 1-78) in Spanish and Mixe in parallel columns, concluding with brief inspirational texts in Spanish, is followed by a list of kinship terms for use in confession (p. 80-84).
The second major section consists of various doctrinal texts in Mixe accompanied by detailed line-by-line analysis in Spanish: Forma de persignarse, Padre Nuestro, Ave Maria, Credo, Salve, Mandamientos del Decalogo, Mandamientos de la Iglesia, Sacramentos, Articulos de la fee, Obras de misericordia, Confession general, Acto de contricion, Bendito (p. 85-123). Concluding the volume, the “Compendio de vozes mixes util para comenzar a estudiar la lengua mixe” contains several Mixe vocabulary lists with Spanish equivalents: 140 terms arranged according to 7 phonetic groupings, with instruction in pronunciation (p. 125-136); a list of terms containing diphthongs (p. 137-138); cardinal numbers 1-1000, ordinal numbers, and temporal expressions (p. 139-143); and over 100 terms for body parts (p. 143-148), with special attention to euphemisms for genitals. Contains index.
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Languages: Mixe
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
