 Through Spanish friars, the Purépecha learned to write in the Latin script, and Purépecha became a literary language in the early colonial period.There is a body of written sources in Purépecha from the period, including several dictionaries, confessionaries, and land titles.Among the most important colonial works are the grammar (1558) and dictionary (1559) of Fray , and the grammar and dictionary (1574) by Juan Baptista de Lagunas 

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