Reglas de Ortografia, Diccionario y Arte del Idioma Othomi: Breve instruccion para los principiantes

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Author: Luis de Neve y Molina Year: 1863 Publisher: Tipografia de Mariano Villanueva Place: Mexico City Description: 254+[2] pages sextodecimo (4 ¾" x 3 ¼" bound in nineteenth century quarter leather and boards, spine tooled in gilt. Second Edition. First published in 1767. Consists of 3 parts: Part 1, “Reglas de orthographia” (pages 1-12); Part 2, “Diccionario de los nombres, y verbos mas comunes, y necessarios en el idioma othomì”, listing Otomi equivalents for approximately 2000 terms in Spanish alphabetical order (pages 13-95) and concluding with a list of numbers 1-1000 (pages 95-96); and Part 3, “Arte del idioma othomi; breve compendio de reglas, para que los principiantes puedan con facilidad formar oraciones, ê instruirse en los mayores rudimentos de este idioma” (pages 97-160), in Spanish with Otomi examples. Author identified as “cathedratico proprietario de dicho idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Saminario, examinador synodal, è interprete de el Tribunal de Fè en el Provisorato de Indios de este Arzobispado” A foundational 18th-century dictionary and orthography for the native Mexican Otomi language. Neve y Molina, who may have been Otomi himself, was the first to set out standard orthographical rules for spellings of words in the Mexican tongue. The work is split into three parts. The first contains Molina's orthography; the second provides Otomi equivalents for over two thousand Spanish words and a list of numbers from one to one thousand; and the third sec

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