Mixtec in print — the Reyes grammar and the Alvarado dictionary (Mexico, 1593)

A grammar and a dictionary of Mixtec, printed by Pedro Balli at Mexico City in 1593 under a single licence. The dictionary's title page says it was made by the Dominicans of the Mixteca and only finally compiled by Francisco de Alvarado, and its prologue goes further, naming the Indians as the best masters of the work. The same prologue describes the tone and nasal sounds of Mixtec, and states that the friars came to the language having conquered an idolatry.