Some words of the Chorti language of Zacapa / collected by John L. Stephens, 1839. [between 1851 and 1878]

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Some words of the Chorti language of Zacapa / collected by John L. Stephens, 1839. [between 1851 and 1878]

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C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 18 words (all nouns) in Chorti along with the English equivalents, extracted from a comparative vocabulary table provided by Albert Gallatin in his article Notes on the semi-civilized nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America (Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. 1, 1845, p. 9); the vocabulary was collected by John Lloyd Stephens at Zacapa, Guatemala (Gallatin, p. 6).

36 leaves : paper ; 204 x 127 (143 x 75) mm. bound to 210 x 134 mm.

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Stephens, John L., 1805-1852

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Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878

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