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'Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás' (born 1499, died 28 February 1570 in Lima) was a Spanish Dominican and grammarian who compiled the first Quechua grammar.
He arrived in Peru in 1538 and founded the convent and city of Yungay on 4 August 1540. For the purpose of evangelization, he learned the Quechua language spoken along the coast near Lima. In 1545, he was elected prior of the ''Convento del Santísimo Rosario'' in Lima, and in 1560 he published his ''Grammatica o Arte de la Lengua General de los Incas o Los Reyes del Perú'' in Valladolid, the first book printed in Peru. In the same year appeared his ''Lexicón o Vocabulario de la Lengua General del Perú llamada "Quichua"''
The coastal dialect of Quechua was significantly different than that of Cuzco, which was described by Diego González Holguín in the early 1600s.

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★ ''Grammatica o Arte de la Lengua General de los Incas o Los Reyes del Perú'' (Valladolid, 1560).

★ ''Lexicón o Vocabulario de la Lengua General del Perú llamada 'Quichua' (1560).