Matlatzinca (Pirinda) missionary philology — five described works, none printed

Five friars are recorded as having written grammars, dictionaries, sermons and catechisms in Matlatzinca; not one was printed. By 1862 only two of the bodies of work could be found, both in manuscript and one of them truncated, and the language itself survived in a single town. Beristáin records how the fullest of them was made: an Augustinian past sixty gathered the ablest Matlatzinca speakers and composed it with them.