Some words of the Chorti language of Zacapa / collected by John L. Stephens, 1839.

Abstract:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 18 words (all nouns) in Chorti along with the English equivalents, extracted from a comparative vocabulary table provided by Albert Gallatin in his article Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America (Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. 1, 1845, p. 9); the vocabulary was collected by John Lloyd Stephens at Zacapa, Guatemala (Gallatin, p. 6).

Creator:

Stephens, John L., 1805-1852.

Timespan:

Guatemala.; Guatemala

Date:

1851

Identifier:

9925822463503681; (OCoLC)ocm63635915; (OCoLC)63635915; (PU)2582246-penndb-Voyager; 2582246

Language:

English; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Library bookplate for the Daniel Garrison Brinton Library; inside front cover).

Publisher:

[between 1851 and 1878]

Subject:

Chorti language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages.; Indians of Central America.; Language and languages.; Chorti language.; Glossaries.; Manuscripts, English.; Manuscripts, Latin American.; Controlled vocabularies.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

36 leaves : paper; 204 x 127 (143 x 75) mm bound to 210 x 134 mm

Personal Name:

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.; Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Rights:

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Notes:

Origin: Written sometime between the beginning of C. Hermann Berendt's research in the Americas in 1851 and his death in 1878.; Ms. codex.; Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.; Title from title page (f. iii recto).; Foliation: Paper, 36; i (paper endleaf) + 6 + 30 (different paper) + i (paper endleaf); [iii, 1-33]; f. i-ii, 2-33 are blank.; Layout: Vocabulary written in two columns of 19 lines, with English on the left and Chorti on the right.; Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century half leather; spine flaking and slightly cracked along front hinge.; English and Chorti.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 700

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection.