Apuntes sobre la lengua chaneabal : con un vocabulario

Name:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878

Date:

1870

Description:

Vocabulary of over 400 Spanish words in alphabetical order with Chaneabal (now known as Tojolabal) translations and a preface about the literature and geographical distribution of this dialect. Followed by notes on numbers and possessive pronouns, correspondences with words in other dialects, and the Lord's prayer.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Mayan languages

Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).; Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Subject:

Tojolabal language -- Grammar; Tojolabal language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Mayan languages -- Grammar; Indians of Mexico -- Languages; Mayan languages; Tojolabal language; Grammar; Language and languages

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); grammars (instructional materials); glossaries; Manuscripts, Mexican; Manuscripts, Spanish; controlled vocabularies

Physical Description:

24 leaves : paper; 225 x 183 mm bound to 225 x 185 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- Languages; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Pagination/Foliation: Paper, 24; pp. [ii], 1-6, ff. 7-25 (versos blank except for f. 7v); related note laid in before f. 21.; Layout: Vocabulary in three columns, with Spanish in the first column, Tojolabal in the second, and notes on correspondences to other dialects in the third.; Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.; Binding: Late 19th-century marbled cardboard.; Origin: Written in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, in 1870.; Spanish and Tojolabal.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 96

Collection:

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection