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Title: A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun Language, Spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California

Author: Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta

Release Date: February 14, 2004 [EBook #11081]

Language: English and Spanish

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SHEA'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LINGUISTICS.

IV.

GRAMMAR OF THE MUTSUN LANGUAGE,

SPOKEN AT THE MISSION OF SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, ALTA CALIFORNIA.

BY FATHER FELIPE ARROYO DE LA CUESTA,

OF THE ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS.

1861

EXTRACTO

DE LA

GRAMATICA MUTSUN,

O DE LA LENGUA DE LOS NATURALES DE LA

MISION DE SAN JUAN BAUTISTA,

COMPUESTA

POR EL REV. PADRE FRAY FELIPE ARROYO

DE LA CUESTA,

DEL ORDEN SERAFICO DE N.P. SAN FRANCISCO, MINISTRO

DE DICHA MISION EN 1816.

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NUEVA-YORK.

1861.

PREFACE

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The accompanying volume is printed exactly from a manuscript of 76
pages, small quarto, belonging to the College of Santa Inez, by whose
president it was, at the suggestion of A.S. Taylor, Esq., forwarded to
the Smithsonian Institution.

The Mutsunes were the Indians among whom the mission of San Juan
Bautista was planted, June 24, 1799. Their village lay in the centre of
a valley, with abundance of rich land, and as late as 1831 numbered 1200
souls. The mission is about 40 miles northwest from Monterey, and they
are thus the most northerly tribe, of whose language, to our knowledge,
the Spanish missionaries compiled a grammar. For purposes of comparison
this little work,