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Arte breve de la lengua otomi compuesto por el p[adr]e fray Alonso Urbano de la Orden de N.P.S. Augustín.
[Paris]: [s.n.] , [1856?]
Physical Description: 45 leaves ; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: Codex/ Ind/ 36
Accession number: 05376
Notes: Ms. codex. Manuscript transcribed about 1856 for the ethnographer E.G. (Ephraim George) Squier from a codex in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Forms a grammar, with sections on the Otomí alphabet, nouns, numerals, pronouns, verbs, gerunds, prepositions, and conjunctions. There is also a short glossary of kinship terms. The original manuscript in Paris (Américain 8), compiled in 1605, is accompanied by a dictionary for Otomí, Nahuatl, and Spanish. For that full text, see: Arte breve de la lengua otomí y vocabulario trilingüe, Alonso Urban; edición de René Acuña. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1990.
Digital facsimile copy of book available.
Languages: Otomi
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
