Classical Otomi

Classical Otomi

Classical Otomi is the name used for the Otomi language as spoken in the early centuries of Spanish colonial rule in Mexico and documented by Spanish friars who learned the language in order to catechize the Otomi peoples. During the colonial period, many Otomis learned to write their language in Roman letters. As a consequence, a significant number of documents in Otomi, both secular and religious, exist from the period, and the most well-known documents are the Codices of Huichapan and Jilotepec.[1] Text in classical Otomi is not easily accessible since the Spanish speaking friars failed to differentiate the varied vowel and consonant sounds of the Otomi language.[2]

Friars wrote several grammars, the earliest documented of which was the Arte de la lengua otomí of Pedro de Cárceres in 1580 (but not published until 1907).[3][4] In 1605, Alonso de Urbanoa wrote a trilingual Spanish-Nahuatl-Otomi dictionary, which also included a small set of grammatical notes about Otomi. The grammarian of Nahuatl, Horacio Carochi is known to have written a grammar of Otomi, but unfortunately no copies have survived. In the latter half of the eighteenth century, an anonymous Jesuit friar wrote the grammar Luces del Otomi, and Neve y Molina wrote a dictionary and a grammar.[5]

References

  1. ^ Ecker, Lastra & Bartholomew 2001
  2. ^ Hekking & Dik 2007: 436
  3. ^ Lope Blanch 2004:57
  4. ^ Lastra 2006: 37–41
  5. ^ Neve y Molina 2005

Works cited

Cárceres, Pedro de (1907 [ca. 1550-1600]). Nicolás León. ed. "Arte de la lengua othomí". Boletín del Instituto Bibliográfico Mexicano (Mexico D.F.: Instituto Bibliográfico Mexicano.) (6): 39–155. 
Ecker, Lawrence (trans.) (2001). Códice de Huichapan: paleografía y traducción. Yolanda Lastra and Doris Bartholomew (eds.). México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas-UNAM. ISBN 968-36-9005-X. OCLC 250044448.  (Otomi) (Spanish)
Hekking, Ewald; and Dik Bakker (2007). "The Case of Otomí: A contribution to grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic perspective". In Yaron Matras and Jeanette Sakel (eds.) (online reproduction by publisher). Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT], no 38. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 435–464. doi:10.1515/9783110199192.435. ISBN 978-3-11-019628-3. OCLC 176648892. http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/9783110199192.435. 
Lastra, Yolanda (2006). Los otomíes: su lengua y su historia. México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas-UNAM. ISBN 978-970-323388-0.  (Spanish)
Lope Blanch, Juan M. (2004). Cuestiones de filología mexicana. Publicaciones del Centro de Lingüística Hispánica, no. 52. México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas-UNAM. ISBN 970-32-0976-9. OCLC 56893165.  (Spanish)
Neve y Molina, L.D. Luis de (2005) [1767]. Erik Boot (ed.). ed (PDF). Reglas de Orthographia, Diccionario, y Arte del Idioma Othomi. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.. http://www.famsi.org/research/boot/neve_y_molina_1767/. Retrieved 2006-11-25.  (Spanish)
Wright Carr, David Charles (2005). "Lengua, cultura e historia de los otomíes" (online version [repaginated from original]). Arqueología mexicana (México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Editorial Raíces) 13 (73): 26–29. ISSN 0188-8218. OCLC 29789840. http://www.arqueomex.com/S2N3nLosOtomies73.html.  (Spanish)

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