Indian languages of Mexico and Central America and their geographical distribution / by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton ; accompanied with a linguistic map.

  • Cyrus Thomas
Date:
1911
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Credit: Indian languages of Mexico and Central America and their geographical distribution / by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton ; accompanied with a linguistic map. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Zapotec letters (Pimentel, i, 321) arc: abcheghilclm hnoprtux y z th According to Cordova (73) c (hard) is sometimes used for g; also d for t, and s for x. From tills it may be seen that the following are found in the former and wanting in the latter: d j s V ]cs gs dz nd tn Jch though d and s are sometimes used for t and x. In the latter the following are found which are wanting in the former: b g I p r tJi These are wide variations for cognate languages. Next is given a list of words for comparison. The author would take a selected list, such as is commonly used in obtaining vocabu- laries, but he has only meager lists of Mixtcc words. LIST MIXTEC ZAPOTEC brother nani beechebiobi sister kuhua beelda father dzutu, yua bixoce, bixooze mother dzehe, xi dihi xinaagaxana man yee beni, benni, beniati woman nahadzehe benigonnaa, bcncgonaa day- yutnaa (manana) chii, gobiicha, chee bread (pan) dzita gueta teeth noho laya, chitalay, layachita. (Sing.) nose dzitu . xii ears tutnu, dzoho tiaga forehead tnaa loocaa, loocuaa tof man or beast) tree yutme yaga hen tenoo berehualache, borezaa (here?) white kuisi nagati, naquichi, yati I duhu, ndi naya, a, a thou doho, ndo lohui, loy, looy, lo we ndoo taono, tono, tona, no you (pi.) doho lato, to for saha niiani, niiateni on dodzo, kodza loo, chiiba, icqiii between naho late, lahui with sihi nii, xii nephew dza.«i, daxi xinibeecha (m), xinibezaana (f) head dzini icqui eye tenu bizaalos, loo mouth yuhu rua, rohua tongue yaa loochi, looche, luuchi hand daha naa house huahi yuu, yoho foot saja niia (pi.) 8347°—Bull. 44-11—^5
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