Reglas de orthographia, Diccionario, y Arte del idioma Othomi, Breve instruccion para los principiantes, que dictó, Cathedratico Proprietario de dicho Idioma en el Real, y Pontificio Colegio Seminario
Author: Luis de Neve y Molina
Year: 1863
Publisher: Tipografia de M. Villanueva
Place: Mexico City
Description:
254+[2] with index. Sextodecimo (4 3/4" x 3 1/4") bound in ninetieth century quarter leather with spine tooled in leather. Second edition. First published in 1767.
The author was the first to establish a proper system of characters, which has been since retained.
Otomi is an Oto-Pamean language spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the central altiplano region of Mexico. Otomi consists of several closely related languages, many of which are not mutually intelligible. The word Hñähñu has been proposed as an endonym, but since it represents the usage of a single dialect, it has not gained wide currency. Linguists have classified the modern dialects into three dialect areas: the Northwestern dialects are spoken in Querétaro, Hidalgo and Guanajuato; the Southwestern dialects are spoken in the State of Mexico; and the Eastern dialects are spoken in the highlands of Veracruz, Puebla, and eastern Hidalgo and villages in Tlaxcala and Mexico states.
Condition:
Rubbing to boars, offset to end papers, blue residue of original wrapper remnant along gutter margin of title page else good to very good.
