Arte doctrinal para aprender la lengua matlaltzinga Guevara, Miguel de

Brief grammatical introduction, mainly devoted to the parts of speech and morphology, paradigms, accompanied by “advertencias” and “notas” (unnumbered). No details related to phonology, orthography, but on p. 221-222 some information is given about how to make sentences, whose phrases have to be in agreement with agents and patients, as the grammar of this language prescribes” (“para hacer las oraciones, cuyos periodos van conforme á las personas que hacen en el verbo y personas que padecen, según la gramática de esta lengua”, as ) and syntax. Special attention is paid to verbal “conjugations”, and the verbs, used in combination with “particles”. The works also contains word lists Spanish-Matlazinca, some of which are arranged thematically (“árboles”, p. 209, “los días”, p. 214), others grammatically (“adverbiales”, p. 210), and a Christian doctrine.