Pokom Maya and Their Colonial Dictionaries

Other Early Poqom Dictionaries and Word Lists

Suzanne Miles (1957: 736) writes that Gonzalo Ximeno, a sixteenth-century priest at Cobán, also wrote a Poqom-Spanish vocabulary, now lost. This may be an error. A friar Gonzalo Ximeno of that era wrote a grammar and vocabulary of Cholti Maya (cf. Moran 1636) but the Poqom dictionaries cite a friar Diego (not Gonzalo) Ximenes as the author a work on the Poqom language. The references to Diego Ximenes are noted in Appendix 5.

The 26 page word list of Guerra Marchan (1787) produced in response to a government query rather as a study of the language, has not been previous noted in the literature. As a sample of a different period it gives further information on the development of language. This report only cites portions of the Guerra Marchan manuscript that provide new data.

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