Mitla Zapotec Texts: Folklore Texts In Mexican Indian Languages 3 (summer Institute Of Linguistics Language Data Amerindian Series, Publication 12) [Paperback]

This book, Mitla Zapotec Texts: Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages 3, gives a grammatical sketch of Zapotec (Mitla Vallay, Oaxaca, Mexico).

This third volume in the series Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages consists of eight stories narrated by native speakers, transcribed phonemically, with glossing in English and free translations in English and Spanish.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface
Introduction

1. The First Man, Woman, and Children Jer?nimo Quero
2. John the Charcoal Maker Jer?nimo Quero
3. The Rabbit and the Coyote Pedro Aguilar
4. The Lion Meets a Man Pedro Aguilar
5. The Man Who Went to Town Manuel Quero Olivero
6. A Person of the Earth Who Was Cold All the Time Manuel Quero Olivero
7. The Turtle and the Buzzard Fausto Sosa
8. The Smallest Animal Manuel Quero Olivero