Manuel de Yangües, Principios y reglas de la lengua cummanagota (Burgos, 1683)

The printed grammar of Cumanagoto, a Cariban language of the Venezuelan coast, issued at Burgos in 1683 with a dictionary by Matías Ruiz Blanco bound in behind it. It describes a language with no case endings through the categories of Nebrija's Latin Arte, admits at the outset that the pronouns are the hardest part of the book, and exists so that a missionary could preach. A century later the language it fixed was the general tongue of thirty-four mission towns.