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Exercise in Mazahua, English and Spanish.

[United States?]: [s.n.], [1845-1900]

Physical Description: [various pagings] ; 23 or 28 cm.

Call number: bD845 / E96i

Accession number: 70-606

Notes: Instructional materials on sheets of various sizes designed for an English speaker to teach Spanish to a Mazahua-speaking population. Includes 2 sheets headed “Mazahua key” with illustrations of everyday objects, most accompanied by trilingual legends in phonetic spelling; “Spanish key” with illustrations labeled only in Spanish; a syllabary; lists of single terms and phrases in Mazahua and Spanish; and several pages of longer texts, including Commandments, in Mazahua with interlinear Spanish translation.

Digital facsimile copy of book available.

Languages: Mazahua

Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Vocabulary

Region: Spanish America