Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Pitch tone and the "saltillo"

File — Box: 2, Folder: 18

Identifier: Manuscripts-Collection 49-(18)

Scope and Contents 1930. Detailed discussion of Nahuatl phonology, pitch tones, and the "saltillo," or type of glottal closure. Field work was conducted principally in Milpa Alta, Distrito Federal and in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Typed and A.D. 54 leaves.

Dates: 1930

Found in: The Latin American Library at Tulane / Pitch tone and the "saltillo"

Translation of the "Ordenanza del señor Cuauhtemoc"

File — Oversize box: 1, Folder: 20

Identifier: Manuscripts-Collection 49-(20)

Scope and Contents 4 Feb-3 May, 1929. Transcription, translation into English, and notes for the Gates' Nahuatl manuscript #758 on amatl paper called "Ordenanza del Señor Cuauhtemoc." Included are Whorf's tracing of the manuscript map and letters to Frans Blom.

Dates: 1929

Found in: The Latin American Library at Tulane / Translation of the "Ordenanza del señor Cuauhtemoc"

Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Pitch tone and the "saltillo"

Translation of the "Ordenanza del señor Cuauhtemoc"

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