Vocabulario de la lengua de los indios del pueblo de Cachi (Costa Rica)

Alternate Title:

Cachi (Costa Rica)

Name:

Alvarado, Lucas

Date:

1866

Description:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 71 vocabulary entries in Spanish and a language spoken by the Indians in the village of Cachi, in the Orosi valley, in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica. The vocabulary was collected by Lucas Alvarado, apparently in 1866. The language is probably related to Cabecar, or to both Cabecar and Bribri. A note in pencil running vertically along the outer margin of the title page reads: It is the Cabecar dialect of Talamanca and worthless for that. For the manuscript in Alvarado's hand upon which Berendt's transcription is based, see Ms.Coll. 700, Item 150; the latter also includes 2 letters from Alvarado to Berendt, both dated in 1873, and an expanded comparative vocabulary, in which the Cachi words in this manuscript appear under the Spanish heading: común Cachi y Biseita (Viceita); Berendt corrects the heading to read simply: Cachi. In the correspondence in Item 150 Alvarado also refers to the vocabulary as that of the Indians of Orosi (also in Cartago province). The manuscript contains annotations in pencil, including the labeling of some words as: C & B; or simply: B.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Central American Indian languages; English

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on the verso of front free endpaper in the bound volume that once contained the present item).; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Cabecar language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Languages; Indians of Central America; Language and languages; Cabecar language

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); glossaries; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

5 leaves : paper; 202 x 126 (152 x 105) mm bound to 202 x 126 mm

Geographic Subject:

Costa Rica -- Languages; Costa Rica

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Graduated from the medical school of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1843 and settled in in Costa Rica. Alvarado was based in Cartago from at least 1860, and was living there when he communicated with C. Hermann Berendt in 1873.; Title from title page (p. 1).; This was the eighteenth of 19 manuscripts formerly bound together, probably by Daniel Garrison Brinton, and now disbound (Items 129-136, 143, 145, 146, 151-155, and 157-159). The bound volume had the spine title: Languages of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.; Pagination: Paper, ii + 5 + i leaves; [1-5], 6-8, [9, 10 (blank)]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 2 columns, with Spanish on the left and the Indian dialect on the right.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Contemporary paper covers; sewn. Gatherings almost detached from each other.; Origin: Written sometime between Alvarado's collection of the vocabulary in 1866 and C. Hermann Berendt's death in 1878.; Spanish and an Indian dialect related to Cabecar (possibly also to Bribri); and a few words in English.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 151

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection