Diego González Holguín

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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.{{cite web |url=http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Libros/linguistica/legado_quechua/fray_diego.htm |title=Fray Diego González Holguín |last=Porras Barrenechea |first=Raúl |website=El Legado Quechua |publisher=Biblioteca Central 'Pedro Zulen', Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos}}

González Holguín was born in the Extremadura region of western Spain in 1560. He arrived in Peru as a missionary in 1581. He undertook a study of Quechua, and in 1607 published a grammar that documented "Classical Quechua", a dialect of Southern Quechua that was spoken in the contemporary Incan court.{{cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/13768/ |title=Grammar and New Art of the Common Language of All of Peru, Called Quechua or Language of the Inca |website=World Digital Library |publisher=Library of Congress}} The complete title of the work is Gramatica y arte nueva dela lengva general de todo el Perv, llamada lengva Quichva, o Lengva del Inca).

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.illa-a.org/cd/ |title=CD de Runasimipi.org § Diccionarios |website=Runasimipi.org |publisher=Runasimipi Qespisqa Software |access-date=2016-04-05}} 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|date=April 2016}} He is also the author of ''Privileges Granted t