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Achiote Albornoz gives American language American Philosophical Society animals arimbome Aztecs banya Berendt MSS bird BRINTON Chap Chapanec Chapanec dialect Chiapas Chocollo Chorotegas or Mangues Comp Compare DANIEL G Dialect formerly spoken diri extinct Dialect formerly Fonseca bay fruit ganyame Gil Gonzalez Dávila Güegüence Gulf of Nicoya hajmi Juan Koi-li kopo kújk"e Lake Nicaragua language of Mexico Lengua lizard Maize mambo Managua Mangue language Mánkeme Masaya mecate Nagrandan of Nicaragua Nahuatl Nahuatl-speak najmo nakupasi nakutá namá nambira Namotiva ñamu nandirime nandiume nangu nanso"a narimu nasi nasinyamo nasome natakopó ndiro neja neje nimbrome nimbu nimú ninda nindi niskupu nombó noun November 20 nyamo nyuga nyugo nyuju nyuku Nyumbi nyumuta nyupa nyuri opome Pami panec phonetic phenomenon prefix pron pronounced pumé pusit'u resonant Rocha Ropia snake and flower Spaniards Spanish spoken in Nicaragua Squier stone Taspo tongues tribe txote vocabulary vowel woman words yok"e Yuca yujmi
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Page 4 - ... population near the Nicoya and the Fonseca bays had entirely disappeared, and in both districts only met with some local names belonging to the Chorotegan language. In the third district also, where descendants of the old stock are still living in twelve villages around the lakes of Masaya and Apoyo, I was informed that no other vestiges of the old idiom were left, the inhabitants speaking exclusively the Spanish language. I had, however, the good luck to ferret out some old people who still...
Page 6 - ... well-known history, gives a brief but clear account of it. The date of this occurrence cannot be specifically stated, but its occasion can be readily surmised. The Mangues at one time occupied the whole coast from the entrance of the Gulf of Nicoya to Fonseca bay. At a period which we may locate some time in the fourteenth century, a large colony of Aztecs descended the coast and seized the strip between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, thus splitting the Mangues in two, and driving a large portion...
Page 5 - The invading Aztecs appear to have split this ancient tribe into two fractions, the one driven toward the south, about the Gulf of Nicoya, the other northward, on and near Lake Managua, and beyond it on Fonseca bay. Probably in memory of this victory, the Aztec Nicaraguans applied to them the opprobious name, Chololteca, 'those driven out...
Page 5 - ... speaks of this people as the " Chorotegas or Mangues." I have given the origin of these names in the Introduction to " The Giiegiience, a Comedy-Ballet in the Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua," published as Number III, of " Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature " (Philadelphia, 1 883). They adjoined on the north-east and south-west the Nahuatl-speaking tribe, who occupied the narrow strip of land between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific ocean. "They were of one blood and one language,...
Page 6 - Remesal, in his well-known history, gives a brief but clear account of it. The date of this occurrence cannot be specifically stated, but its occasion can be readily surmised. The Mangues at one time occupied the whole coast from the entrance of the Gulf of Nicoya to Fonseca bay. At a period which we may locate some time in the fourteenth century, a large colony of Aztecs descended the coast and seized the strip between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, thus splitting the Mangues in two, and driving...
Page 3 - MS. The author was born in Granada, CA, June 15, 1815. By profession a lawyer, his taste led him to the study of languages, and he acquired a fluent knowledge of French, English and Italian. He was appointed instructor in French and Spanish grammar in 1848 in the University of Leon, CA, and ten j-ears later, 1S58, published his Elemenlos de Gramatica Castellana (Leon, 1858, small 4to, pp'.
Page 13 - Flesh, for eating, nampumi. Flint, nyupa nyugo. Compare stone. Flower, nyuri, niri. Compare bird, and snake. Fly, a, nimbrome. Food, nyumuta. Comp. bean. Foot, ngira. Forehead, gula. Forest, nijome, nmandi. Fork, a, nya nangu. Compare house. Probably the forked stick, which supports the ridge-pole. Friend, nguri ; manku. Comp. brother. Frog, natakopo. Comp. toad. Fruit, narime. Gall, bayatime*. Gaspar, nyuju yansu. A fish sometimes
Page 11 - Bowels, ngita. Boy, nasome ; R. norome ; little boy, norominamu. Branch (of a tree) ndiro nya ; =