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Author · Dominican Republic

Manuel José Andrade

Died in 1941

Manuel José Andrade was born in 1885, according to the Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española, which does not know his nationality. A professor of Spanish, he had co-signed in 1916 with Arthur Fisher Whittem a manual of Spanish commercial correspondence, then turned to Amerindian linguistics under Franz Boas. He spent six weeks at La Push, in Washington State, studying the Quileute language, then worked for the University of Chicago on Mayan languages. He died in 1941.

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