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National Anthropological Archives
MS 1062 Kekchi grammatical notes and vocabulary
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1062
- Creators:
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Kocsis, Alexander, 1823-1896
- Dates:
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February 1885
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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205 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Contents:
Volume 1: Cultural notes and grammatical summary, some notes on pronunciation, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, verbs, numerals, particles; some morphological analysis. The Lord's Prayer, as received by G. Reed, with interlineation. A few kin terms and loan words in the vocabulary, which begins in Volume 1 and runs through the remaining volumes. The English-Kekchi vocabulary is not properly alphabetized. In volume 1 there are about 240 entries, A- CURASSON. 73 pages.
Volume 2: CHACHA-POUR OUT, 72 pages, about 700 entries.
Volume 3: PLEASANT-YELLOW, 61 pages. About 525 entries, plus about 75 Kekchi English phrases, plus a few greetings and 1 page of Christian and family names at the end. Dated at the end at Tullahoma, Tennessee, July 8, 1885. H. Landau 8 V11 1969
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 1062, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 1062
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers -- Maya | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Kinship -- Kekchi | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Names, Personal -- Kekchi | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Guatemala | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Kekchi Jacaltec | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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