Diego González Holguín (1560 – c. 1620) was a Spanish

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priest and

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, as well as a scholar of the

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during the era of the

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. González Holguín was born in the

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region of western

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in 1560. He arrived in Peru as a missionary in 1581. He undertook a study of Quechua, and in 1607 published a grammar that documented "Classical Quechua", a dialect of

Southern Quechua Southern Quechua (, ), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers. Besides Guaraní it ...

that was spoken in the contemporary Incan court. The complete title of the work is ''Gramatica y arte nueva dela lengva general de todo el Perv, llamada lengva Quichva, o Lengva del Inca''). In 1608 he published a dictionary, ''Vocabulario de la lengva general de todo el Perv llamada lengva Qquichua o del Inca El Quechua Cortesano del Cuzco'', the first dictionary of the Cusco dialect. According with the numbers registered by

Domingo de Santo Tomás Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, O.P. (1499 – December 1570) was a Spanish Dominican missionary, bishop, and grammarian in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He compiled the first Quechua language grammar and dictionary, both published in 1560. His ...

(author of the first Quechua grammar and dictionary), it was the second most important work about the Quechua language. He is also the author of ''Privileges Granted t

Works

* ''Gramatica y arte nueua de la lengua general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Quichua, o lengua del Inca'' (Lima, 1607) * ''Vocabulario de la lengua general de todo el Peru llamada lengua Qquichua, o del Inca'' (Lima, 1608) * ''Privilegios concedidos a los Indios'' (Lima, 1608)

References

External links

* Complete digital facsimile o
''Gramatica y arte nueua de la lengua general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Quichua, o lengua del Inca'' (Lima, 1607)
in the John Carter Brown Library's collection on Internet Archive * Complete digital facsimile o
''Vocabulario dela lengua general de todo el Peru llamada lengua Qquichua, o del Inca'' (Lima, 1608)
in the John Carter Brown Library's collection on Internet Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Holguin, Diego Gonzalez Catholic clergy scientists Jesuit missionaries in Peru Writers from Extremadura 1560 births 1620 deaths Spanish Roman Catholic missionaries 16th-century Spanish Jesuits 17th-century Spanish Jesuits