Voces del Dzaha Dzavui (mixteco clásico)
Análisis y Conversión del Vocabulario de fray Francisco de Alvarado (1593)
- Jansen, Maarten & Gabina
Voces del Dzaha Dzavui (mixteco clásico)
Análisis y Conversión del Vocabulario de fray Francisco de Alvarado (1593)
- Jansen, Maarten & Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez
- 01 January 2009
Oaxaca: Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca & Colegio Superior para la Educación Integral Intercultural de Oaxaca &Yuu Núú A.C.
Düring the colonial period several documents were written down in Mexican indigenous languages with the alphabet that had been introduced by the Spaniards. Not only in Nahuatl (the Aztec language) and Maya, but also in Mixtec, the language of an important corpus of precolonial pictorial manuscripts. The key to translate those colonial Mixtec texts is a dictionary compiled by the Dominican Friar Francisco de Alvarado, the Vocabulario en Lengua Mixteca, published in 1593. This is a rare but crucial work, which is not only the base for all linguistic, philological and etymological studies of Mixtec (a language still spoken by half a million people), but also the fundament for archaeological, historical and anthropological investigations, as it includes a wide range of culturally relevant terms (on ancient religion, social organization, material culture, technology etc.). Unfortunately it contains only the Spanish-Mixtec section. Use is further handicapped by the presence of 