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Cartilla en lengua Maya para la enseñanza de los niños indigenas.
Mérida: J. D. Espinosa é hijos, 1871
Physical Description: 14 p. ; 15 cm.
Call number: B871/ B488c
Accession number: 06161
Notes: Maya language primer beginning with summary notes on pronunciation and orthography, followed by brief texts almost exclusively in Maya, including 15 practice paragraphs of increasing complexity and several religious texts (Padre Nuestro, Ave Maria, Credo, and Ten Commandments). Also includes numbers 1-20 and examples of elementary arithmetic operations (p. 10-11).
Author identification from the publisher’s preface.
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Languages: Maya
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
