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Arte de lengua totonaca, conforme á el arte de Antonio Nebrija... Lleva añadido una doctrina de la lengua de naolingo, con algunes vozes de la lengua de aquella sierra, y de esta de acá.
Puebla [de los Angeles]: Widow of Miguel de Ortega, 1752
Physical Description: [44], 134, [6], 79, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (4to)
Call number: B752/ Z23a
Accession number: 12140, 06484
Notes: Preliminary licenses, etc. in Spanish and Latin. Grammatical study in Spanish with Totonac examples (p. 1-134, 2nd count; index p. [1-6], 3rd count) includes extensive verb paradigms (p. 10-46, 2nd count) and a Spanish-Totonac list of over 100 adverbial expressions (p. 121-125). Totonac-Spanish vocabulary lists over 100 terms, primarily nouns (p. 1-3, 4th count); Spanish-Totonac vocabulary includes a list of 70 kinship terms (p. 3-4, 4th count) and a 100-item list of “Partes del cuerpo humano, sus accidentes, y enferm[e]dades” (p. 5-7, 4th count), the latter supplemented by a separate 30-item Spanish-Totonac vocabulary under the heading “Estos distintos, de las partes del cuerpo humano, se passaron al tiempo de la ymprenta” (p. 47-48, 4th count). Christian texts entirely in Totonac with Spanish headings include sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and penitence, and “Confessionario breve” (p. 8-47, 4th count). “Oraciones, y doctrina de la cierra baja de Naolingo, distintas de la cierra alta de Papantla. Su author el Liç. D. Francisco Dominguez, Cura interino de Xalpam” entirely in [Totonac dialect?] (p. 49-62, 4th count) is followed by “Distintos significados, de la Totonacalpa, â la Totonaca de Naolingo” (p. 63-[? : final pages missing]), a comparative vocabulary listing several hundred terms in Spanish in a central column headed “Romance”, with indigenous equivalents in a column on the left headed “Cierra alta” and on the right in a column headed “Cierra baja”.
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JCB has 2 copies: both copy 1 and copy 2 are imperfect, lacking preliminary pages including t.p.
Languages: Totonac
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
