Abstract

COMBES, Isabelle  and  MONTANI, Rodrigo. Friar Esteban Primo de Ayala’s Mataco dictionaries: First historical record of the Wichi language. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.3, pp.07-22. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v13.n3.31065.

Abstract The oldest manuscript known of the Wichi language (Mataguayan linguistic family) is published for the first time: the Diccionario y arte de la lengua mataca by the Franciscan Esteban Primo, compiled in Zenta mission (now province of Salta, Argentina) and dated in 1795. This manuscript is also contextualized and systematically compared with the three preserved copies of the vocabulary known as the Manuscrito D’Orbigny in order to show that this manuscript, so far anonymous, is the work of Primo himself.

Keywords : Wichi/Weenhayek; Gran Chaco; Alcide d’Orbigny; Missionary linguistics; Historical linguistics.

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