Indigenous Languages & Literature Microfilm

This guide provides access to microfilm resources of dictionaries, grammars, and research notes pertaining to the indigenous languages of Central and South America. All collections are located in GIMSS: Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services on the 2nd floor of the Wells Library.

 

Links to IUCAT records provide more detailed information about individual collections. If you need further assistance locating these materials, inquire at the GIMMS desk on the 2nd floor.

 

Collections 

Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1914-1957

(Nahuatl and Aztec linguistics, Maya hieroglyphs, and notes on Mexican research trips)

 

George Hubbard Pepper papers, 1895-1918

(Indian cultures of Ecuador and Mexico)

 

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF): Indigenous Cultures of Central and South America

[guide to IUB collections] [collections list]

 

The papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957 (UMI)

Volume 7, Mexico/Central America/South America (Field notes, dictionaries, grammars, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and maps. Includes Pima/Papago/Seri/Opata, Nahuatl, Quiche, Cakchiquel, Yucatec, Cuna, and other South American languages)

 

Individual items 

Artículos en lingüística y campos afines . Bogotá: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1974. (Indian languages of South America)

 

Breve explicación de algunos puntos de doctrina cristiana: en idioma mexicano, para facilitar á la clase indígena conocimientos necesarios acerca de su bien espiritual . Teziutlán: Impr. y Encuadernación de J.M. Cuesta, á cargo de A.R. Cuesta, 1893. (Nahuatl)

 

Una breve gramática del shuar, by Glen D. Turner. Quito: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1992. (Shuar)

 

Diccionario asháninca, recopilación de Lee Kindberg. Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1980. (Asháninca)

 

Diccionario cashinahua, compilado por Susan Montag. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Yarinacocha, Peru: Ministerio de Educación: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1981. (Cashinahua)

 

Diccionario quiche-español, by Abraham García Hernández. Guatemala: Instituto Linguistico de Verano, 1980. (Quiche)

 

Estudios chibchas, by División Operativa de Asuntos Indígenas. Lomalinda, Colombia: Editorial Townsend, 1976. (Chibchan languages)

 

Estudos sôbre línguas e culturas indígenas: trabalhos linguísticos realizados no Brasil , by Sarah C. Gudschinsky, et al. Brasília: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1971. (Indian languages of South America)

 

From phonology to discourse: studies in six Colombian languages , edited by Ruth M. Brend. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1985.(Indian languages of South America)

 

Gramática náhuatl de Mecayapa , por Carl Wolgemuth. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1981 (Nahuatl)

 

Gramatica pedagógica huitoto: huitoto (dialecto m_in_ica)-español , by Flor María Rombaritjama, Remigio Kudimugu, Anita Ukubiaño de Gaba, et al. Bogotá: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1982. (Witoto)

 

Gramática popular del Carapana, by Ronald G. Metzger. Bogotá : Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1981. (Carapana [Tucanoan])

 

The grammar of Karipúna Creole , S. Joy Tobler. Brasília, DF: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1983. (Karipuna Creole dialect)

 

El idioma huao: gramátcia pedagógica, por M. Catalina Peeke. Quito, Ecuador: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1979-. (Waorani)

 

Léxico hispanoamericano del siglo XVI, by Peter Boyd-Bowman. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1987. (Provincialisms of Latin America)

 

Léxico hispanoamericano del siglo XIX , by Peter Boyd-Bowman. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1984. (Provincialisms of Latin America)

 

Léxico hispanoamericano del siglo XX , by Peter Boyd-Bowman. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies,1994. (Provincialisms of Latin America)

 

A new survey of the West-Indies: being a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America, by Thomas Gage. London: Printed by M. Clark, for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. (Pokonchi)

 

Popoluca-castellano castellano-popoluca: dialecto de Sayula, Veracruz, compilado por Lorenzo Clark y Nancy Davis de Clark. México : Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, en coordinación con la Secretaria de Educación Pública, 1974. (Sierra Popoluca)

 

Proto Chinantec phonology, por Calvin Ross Rensch. México : Museo Nacional de Antropología, 1968. (Proto-Chinantec )

 

Quiché Maya-English vocabulary, by Stanley A. Wick and Remigio Conchojil González. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1975. (Quiche)

 

Sayula Popoluca verb derivation, by Lawrence Clark. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1983. 1526925 (Sierra Popoluca)

 

Southern Barasano Grammar, by Richard D. Smith. Santa Anna, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1973. (Barasano)

 

La única gramática conocida de la lengua Pame: noticia bibliográfica, de Rudolf Schuller. México: Tall. gráf. del Departamento de antropología, 1925. (Pame)

 

Vocabualrio de la lengua aymara, compuesto por el P. Ludovico Bertonio; publicado de nuevo por Julio Platzmann. Ed. facsimilaria. 2 vols. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1879. (Aymara)

 

Workpapers concerning Waorani discourse features, by Evelyn G. Pike and Rachel Saint, editors. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988. (Waorani)

 

For general collections relating to Latin American countries, see Latin American Microfilm Collections