Antonio del Rincón

Antonio del Rincón (1566–March 2, 1601) was a Jesuit priest and grammarian, who wrote one of the earliest grammars of the Nahuatl language (known generally as the "Arte mexicana", MS. published in 1595). A mestizo native of Texcoco from the early decades of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and descendant of the "tlaloque" (ruling nobility of Texcoco), del Rincón knew the language of the indigenous Nahua peoples intimately. His grammar ranks alongside those of Andrés de Olmos and Alonso de Molina as an influential primary source for the language as spoken in the post-conquest period.

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: cite journal |author=aut|Guzmán Betancourt, Ignacio |year=2002 |title=Antonio del Rincón (1566–1601): primer gramático mexicano |journal=Estudios de cultura náhuatl |url=http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/ecn/ecnahuatl33/ECN03311.pdf |format=PDF online reproduction |volume=33 |pages=pp.253–265|location=México, D.F. |publisher=Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |issn=0071-1675 |oclc=1568281 es icon: cite book |author=aut|Peñafiel, Antonio |chapter=Introduccion |year=1885 |title=Arte mexicana compuesta por el padre Antonio Del Rincón de la compañia de Jesus: Dirigido al illustrissimo y reverendissimo s. Don Diego Romano obispo de Tlaxcallan, y del consejo de su magestad, &c. En Mexico en casa de Pedro, Balli. 1595 |url=http://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2005/pres2005-033.pdf |edition=Reprinted 1885 under the care of Dr. Antonio Peñafiel |format=PDF facsimile, University of Chicago Library digital collections|location=México D.F. |publisher=Oficina tip. de la Secretaría de fomento |pages=pp. iii–v|oclc=162761360 es icon