Tapia Zenteno, Carlos de:

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NOTICIA DE LA LENGUA HUASTECA, QUE EN BENEFICIO DE SUS NACIONALES...CON CATHECISMO, Y DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA PARA SU INSTRUCCION, SEGUN LO QUE ORDENA EL SANTO CONCILIO ... First edition of the first grammar and dictionary printed in Huastec (Wasteko), or Téenek, a northern dialect of the Mayan language spoken in the 17th and 18th centuries by the people of the La Huasteca region, which spans parts of the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas, particularly along the route of the Pánuco River and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Huastec remains a living language, with about 200,000 native speakers recorded as of 2005.Carlos de Tapia Zenteno (1698-ca. 1767) was not only an important Mexican linguist and professor of Mexican languages at the Royal University (especially Nahua and Huastec), but was also a Comisario of the Inquisition and prominent canon lawyer. His first post was in the diocese of Tampamolon de Huasteca, where he learned Nahua and Huastec. He published his first work, Arte Novissima de Lengua Mexicana..., in 1753. Although he had already finished the present work in 1745, it was not until 1767, with funding from Archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, that he was able to finally publish it. Lorenzana was deeply interested in the indigenous culture of Mexico as well as the conquest of it; he also produced an elegant illustrated edition of Cortés' letters in 1770. Tapia Zenteno created the present manual specifically for the use of subseque

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