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Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana.
Mexico: Pedro Ocharte, 1571
Physical Description: [3], 82, 35 leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Call number: B571/ M722a
Accession number: 03381
Notes: Preliminaries in Spanish; grammatical study in Spanish with Nahuatl examples. Part 1 consists of eight chapters on the parts of speech, covering nouns, pronouns, verbs, participles, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. “Segunda parte del arte dela lengua mexicana, y castellana” (leaves 1-35, 3rd count) contains “una declaracion necessaria de algunas dictiones difficultosas desta lengua mexicana en especial de los nombres y de los verbos” (leaf 1r) including lists of numerals and 11 rules for counting (leaves 1v-7r) and “Del buen sonido y del accento y buena pronunciacion” (leaves 27-35). Set in black letter type.
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Languages: Nahuatl
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
