Some articles on grammars, early grammars:
... acquired good dominance of the indigenous languages and often even composed grammars and dictionaries of the indigenous languages ... These early grammars of native languages systematized the reading and writing of indigenous languages in their own time and help us understand them today ... The most widely known early grammars and dictionaries are of the Aztec language, Nahuatl ...
Famous quotes containing the words grammars and/or early:
“The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.”
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