Arte de la lengua mexicana (1754 book)

Infobox Book
name = Arte de la lengua mexicana


author = Joseph Augustin Aldama y Guevara
country = Mexico
language = Spanish
subject = Nahuatl language
genre = Grammar
publisher = Bibliotheca Mexicana
release_date = 1754
pages = 163

"Arte de la lengua mexicana" is a little-knownLauney (1995).] grammar of the Nahuatl language by Joseph Augustin Aldama y Guevara published in 1754.

Aldama y Guevara's "Arte" is mostly derivative of previously published grammars of Nahuatl, [Schwaller.] particularly Horacio Carochi's "Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracion de los adverbios della". [Launey (1986): 16–17.]

Aldama y Guevara marks the saltillo with a circumflex accent over the preceding vowel at the end of a word, or a grave accent over the preceding vowel elsewhere, and marks long vowels with an acute accent (in contrast to Carochi's macron).

Notes

References

*cite paper |author=Launey, Michel |title=Catégories et opérations dans la grammaire Nahuatl |date=1986 |url=http://celia.cnrs.fr/FichExt/Etudes/Launey/tm.htm
*cite journal |author=Launey, Michel |year=1995 |title=L’"Arte de la lengua mexicana" de Aldama y Guevara (1754) |journal=Amerindia |volume=19/20 |url=http://celia.cnrs.fr/FichExt/Am/A_19-20_21.htm
*cite journal |author=Schwaller, John Frederick |year=1973 |title=A Catalogue of Pre-1840 Nahuatl Works Held by The Lilly Library |journal=The Indiana University Bookman |volume=11 |pages=69–88 |url=http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/etexts/nahuatl/

External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC16017325 Aldama y Guevara's "Arte de la lengua mexicana" on Google Book Search]