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Grammars and Language Description

Grammars and Language Description
Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el Estrecho de Fuca [Madrid? 1802]
Chapter 19 contains section on “Idioma de estos naturales, su sistema de numeracion, y de computar el tiemp &c.” (p. 152-153), including names of months. Chapter 21 includes a list of approximately 30 Spanish words with equivalents in “Eslen” and “Runsien” in three columns (p. 172-173); following chapter 22 is a "Vocabulario del idioma de los habitantes de Nutka" listing approximately 400 Spanish words and phrases with Nootka equivalents in 2 double columns per page, concluding with numerals 1-10 (p. 178-184). Published anonymously. Attributed to Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano, Cayetano Valdés Flores Bazán y Peón, Josef Espinosa y Tello, or José Cardero. Cf. The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana, 1792, 1990.
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