Agustín de Quintana, Arte de la lengua mixe (Puebla, 1729; reprinted Oaxaca, 1891)

A Dominican's grammar of Mixe, printed at Puebla in 1729 inside a bilingual devotional book of 550 pages, and reprinted at Oaxaca in 1891 by a Mexican philologist who wanted it back in circulation because the independent republic had let the study of Oaxaca's languages lapse. Quintana records vowels his alphabet could not write and sends the learner to native speakers instead; Belmar, printing him 162 years later, argues against the "gente de razón e indios" distinction.