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What is the name of the 16th-century Nahuatl-language grammar book written by Franciscan friar Andres de Olmos, the first systematic description of any indigenous language of the Americas to be printed?

Olmos's 1547 'Arte' established the template for missionary grammars across the New World, analysing Nahuatl using Latin grammatical categories.

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