Chiapanec

[aka Chiapaneco, Chiapaneko,]

Classification: Otomanguean

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Dormant

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Doctrina christiana en lengua chapaneca

An 1869 copy of a portion of a collection of Catholic texts and prayers from the 17th or 18th century, translated into the Chiapanec language. Contents include a catechism, several acrostics and anagrams, prayers, a sermon, and a number of pen-and-ink illustrations, including a simple family tree for Jesus (p. 44), a complicated cross with a serpent at its base (p. 55); a woman praying amidst grasses or flames (p. 62); and a skeleton (p. 63).

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Aug. 24, 1869

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania

Tuxtla Gutierrez

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania

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