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Title: 26: Vocabulary of the Chontal language and its dialects spreading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien
Identifier(s): text:310678
Description: Comparative list of 31 words using Spanish orthography which the author compiled from the works of various travelers. Discusses languages throughout Central America. For many of the named languages it is unclear which Indigenous language it may refer to, as some may also be lumped together or misconstrued. Compares Chontal ("Tzendal" , Tzeltal?, or Chontal of Nicaragua?), Quiché (K'iche'), "Quaregua" ("Quiriguitta", Q'eqchi'?), and "Urraba" (west of Darien). He attempts to reduce 28 languages to 6: Chontal, Maya, Poconchi (Poqomchi), Nahuatl (Nawat), Teca, and Chica (Caichi).
Creator: Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840et al
Subject: Indigenous peoples--Central America--Languages
Date: 1826

Title: 25: Vocabulary of the extinct Haytian or Taino language
Identifier(s): text:310677
Description: Comparative list of 40 words (following Spanish orthography), by means of which the author asserts a relationship with the Berber and other African languages, as well as with the Maya and other Central American languages. His sources are Columbus, D'Aniera, Herrera, Edwards.
Creator: Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840et al
Subject: Taino language
Date: 1825