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Comparative study of address terms for the Christian Gods in various highland Mayan languages and their genesis

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First cross-linguistic comparison highlighting adaptations to local sociolinguistic patterns and language ideologies.

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This page is a summary of: Language, Catechisms, and Mesoamerican Lords in Highland Guatemala: Addressing “God” after the Spanish Conquest, Ethnohistory, July 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2890273.
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