DICCIONARIO CASTELLANO-QUICHUA.
Mossi, Honorio:
Sucre: Imprenta Boliviana, April 28, 1860. Title-leaf plus 224 numbered columns on fifty-six leaves. Gathered signatures, stitched. Light numerical inscription in red pencil on titlepage. Minor wear and soiling to outer leaves. Very good. The second part of Fray Honorio Mossi's monumental Quechua-Spanish / Spanish-Quechua dictionary, this part being the latter (translating Spanish words into Quechua), issued with a separate titlepage, which is present here. The author, Fray Honorio Mossi, was an Italian linguist working in Bolivia, who has been noted for calling the Quechua language "more perfect than Latin and Greek" (Marr, p.207). Palau records a similar title published the same year in Sucre, but containing a different pagination. PALAU 183510 (variant). Tim Marr, "Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua" in OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF BILINGUALISM (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp.199-219.
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