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 Title:  Arawak manuscripts     
 Dates:  1803 
 Abstract:  This large volume contains German to Arawak dictionary. Thomas Schulz, a German Moravian missionary to British Guiana, compiled the dictionary in the nineteenth century and sent it to the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.498.3.Sch8 
 Extent:  0.3 Linear feet 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics | Native America 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Arawak language | Arawak language--Dictionaries--German | Indians of South America--Languages | Linguistics | Moravians--Missions 
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 Title:  Doctrina Christiana     
 Dates:  Circa 1692 
 Abstract:  This bound volume from the eighteenth century contains language and cultural material relating to the Cakchiquel.

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 Call #:  Mss.497.4.D65 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Religion 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Cakchikel language 
3Author:  Unidentified authorRequires cookie*
 Title:  Uae nima vutz rij theologi aindox ubinaan nima     
 Dates:  1553-1605 
 Abstract:  This volume is one of two from the sixteenth or seventeenth century Latin America that deals with the Kiche language. The two volumes contain translations of Kiche, common phrases, verbs, and a prayer. The bound volume is not printed, perhaps because its content was too controversial, and is instead written in a beautiful script.

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 Call #:  Mss.497.4.Ual3 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Religion 
 Genre:  Foreign Language | Language Material 
 Subjects:  Mayan languages | Quiché language | Sermons, Cakchikel. 
4Author:  Unidentified authorRequires cookie*
 Title:  Uae rugotzlem Sant Andres apostol     
 Dates:  1605 
 Abstract:  This is one of two bound volumes from the sixteenth or seventeenth century Latin America. The two volumes contain translations of Kiche, common phrases, verbs, and a prayer. The bound volume is not printed, perhaps because its content was too controversial, and is instead written in a beautiful script.

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 Call #:  Mss.497.4.Ual5 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Topics:  Beyond Early America | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Religion 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Mayan languages | Quiché language | Sermons, Cakchikel.