Hervás, Catálogo de las lenguas — Volume I, American languages (Madrid, 1800)

The first volume of Lorenzo Hervás's catalogue of the world's languages, printed at Madrid in 1800 and given entirely to the Americas. Hervás classified languages by their grammatical structure rather than their word-lists, grouped maya, cakchi, poconchi, cakchiquil and pocoman into one family with maya proposed as its parent, and named the Q'eqchi' speaker he owed that grouping to. The same volume records languages already extinct and admits how much is missing.