A grammatical sketch of the Heve language translated from an unpublished Spanish manuscript
New York: Cramoisy Press, 1861. 8vo, pp. 26; later red buckram, gilt lettering on spine; half-title and front cover loose, but present. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a small Newberry bookplate and a Newberry release stamp at the base of the title page. Issued as no. III in Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Heve is the language spoken by the Eudeve, a people of the Dohme, and was spoken in the middle of the 18th century over a region of country principally within Sonora, "the northernmost of the seven provinces then comprising the kingdom of New Galicia under the Viceroyalty of New Spain" in areas now part of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. Pilling, Proof-sheets, 3641. Item #52815
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