Diego González Holguín

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Diego González Holguín (1560 – c. 1620) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary, as well as a scholar of the Quechua languages during the era of the Viceroyalty of Peru.^[1]

González Holguín was born in the Extremadura region of western Spain in 1560. He arrived in Peru as a missionary in 1581. He undertook a study of Quechua, and in 1607 published a grammar that documented "Classical Quechua", a dialect of Southern Quechua that was spoken in the contemporary Incan court.^[2] The complete title of the work is Gramatica y arte nueva dela lengva general de todo el Perv, llamada lengva Quichva, o Lengva del Inca).

In 1608 he published a dictionary, Vocabulario de la lengva general de todo el Perv llamada lengva Qquichua o del Inca El Quechua Cortesano del Cuzco, the first dictionary of the Cusco dialect.^[1][3] According with the numbers registered by Domingo de Santo Tomás (author of the first Quechua grammar and dictionary), it was the second most important work about the Quechua language.^{[citation needed]} He is also the author of Privileges Granted to the Indians (Spanish: Privilegios concedidos a los Indios), published the same year.

He died in Lima c. 1620.^{[citation needed]}

Works[]

Title page, Gramatica y arte nueua de la lengua general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Quichua, o lengua del Inca (Lima, 1607)

Title page, Vocabulario de la lengua general de todo el Peru llamada lengua Qquichua, o del Inca (Lima, 1608)

• Gramatica y arte nueua de la lengua general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Quichua, o lengua del Inca (Lima, 1607)
• Vocabulario de la lengua general de todo el Peru llamada lengua Qquichua, o del Inca (Lima, 1608)
• Privilegios concedidos a los Indios (Lima, 1608)

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External links[]

• Complete digital facsimile of Gramatica y arte nueua de la lengua general de todo el Peru, llamada lengua Quichua, o lengua del Inca (Lima, 1607) in the John Carter Brown Library's collection on Internet Archive
• Complete digital facsimile of Vocabulario dela lengua general de todo el Peru llamada lengua Qquichua, o del Inca (Lima, 1608) in the John Carter Brown Library's collection on Internet Archive