Diego González Holguín

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.

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 t

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)