Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana en lengua cahita

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Author: Tomás Basilio (1580-1654) or Father Juan Bautista de Velasco in collaboration Year: 1890 Publisher: la Imprenta del Gobierno. en el Rx-Arzobispado Place: Mexico City Description: 11 pages numbered 236 to 245. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in leather with gilt lettering to spine. (Ugarte 100) Second edition. Wagner, The Spanish Southwest, when referring to this Catechism "I think it very likely that this Catechism was issued with the Arte de la lengua cahita as the two copies are usually bound together." Traditionally attributed to the Jesuit Tomás Basilio (a missionary in the province of Sinaloa), although in various historical compilations (such as those edited by Eustaquio Buelna in the 19th century) it has also been linked or associated with grammatical works, such as those by Juan Bautista de Velasco. It includes an exposition of Christian doctrine (prayers, commandments, mysteries of the faith) translated and adapted into the Cahita language, frequently accompanied by introductions, notes, and vocabularies or grammatical treatises on the language. Although it was composed and printed during the early New Spanish period (1737) has been the subject of linguistic studies and modern academic reprints aimed at recovering and analyzing the Cahita language (the language family from which Yaqui and Mayo descend) The Cahita people spoke a cluster of closely related dialects belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language family. he name "Cahita" is thought to derive from a Spanish mis

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