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Vocablos de la lengua chontal de Oaxaca : recojidos en S. Miguel Ecatepec / por John Porter Bliss.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 700 Item 125
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Bliss, John Porter.
- Language:
- Central American Indian (Other)
- Mayan languages
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Chontal language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Indians of Central America--Nicaragua--Languages.
- Indians of Central America.
- Language and languages.
- Chontal language.
- Mexico--Languages.
- Mexico.
- Nicaragua--Languages.
- Nicaragua.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- glossaries
- Manuscripts, Mexican.
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Penn Provenance:
- From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).
- Physical Description:
- 6 leaves : paper ; 204 x 128 mm bound to 210 x 135 mm
- Contained In:
- Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 125
- Place of Publication:
- [Cobán, Guatemala?,], 1875.
- Language Note:
- Spanish and Chontal, with some Chontal of Tabasco.
- Summary:
- A table comparing 26 words in the Chontal language collected by John Porter Bliss in 1871 from the community of San Miguel Ecatepec in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, with other dialects of Chontal. Berendt copied Bliss's list from Francisco Pimentel's Cuadro descriptivo y comparativo de los lenguas indigenas de México (v. III, pp. 293-294) and added columns to compare equivalents that he himself collected from the Chontal of Tabasco and the Popoluca de Oluta and that Victor Noguera collected from the Popoluca and Chontal of Nicaragua.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 3r).
- Foliation: Paper, 6; [ii, 2, ii]; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto.
- Layout: A table across two facing pages of 26 lines in 6 columns, for Spanish, Chontal de Oaxaca, Chontal de Oaxaca written in what Berendt refers to as an analytical alphabet, Chontal de Tabasco, Popoluca & Chontal de Nicaragua, and Popoluca de Oluta. The first two columns are in black ink, the third through fifth are in red ink, and the sixth, added later and more casually, in black ink.
- Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
- Binding: Late 19th-century half leather.
- Origin: Probably written in Cobán, Guatemala, in 1875.
- Cited in:
- Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 26 (no. 125).
- Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 641 (no. 42).
- Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 77 (no. 454).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 125
- OCLC:
- 155933086
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