Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and Their Geographical DistributionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - 108 pages |
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Acaxee According Ahome Alegre Apache appears Aztec belonging Berendt Berra's map border Boruca boundary Cabecar Cahita Chiapas Chichimeca Chinipa Chiriqui lagoon Chirripo Chol Chontal Chorotegas coast Cochimi Concho Costa Rica dialect distinct district Doctor Brinton Doraskean east eastern evidence extended extinct Gabb given by Orozco Guatemala Guaymi Guetare Gulf of Nicoya headwaters Hervas Honduras idiom included Indians inhabited Jicaque Juarros Kiche Lake Nicaragua latter Lencan lengua linguistic list of languages locates Lower Pima Mangue Maya Mayan Mayo mentioned Mexican Mexico Mixtec naciones Nahuatlan Nicaragua Oaxaca occupied Opata Orotina Orozco y Berra Otomi Pacific Peralta Pimentel Pinart province pueblos Pupuluca Quepo referred region Ribas river San Juan Sapper says sierras Sinaloa Sonora southern speaking Squier statement Stoll subtribe Synonym Tabasco Talamanca Tarahumare Tehueco Tepehuane Terraba territory tribe Tzental valley Varohio vocabulary writer Yaqui Yaqui group Zacateco Zapata Zapotec Zoque Zuaque
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Page 60 - The Zoques inhabit the mountainous region to the east, from the valley of the Chicapa on the south, to the Rio del Corte on the north. Originally occupying a small province lying on the confines of Tobasco, they were subjugated by the expedition to Chiapas under Luis Marin.* At present they are confined to the villages of San Miguel and Santa Maria Chimalapa.
Page 38 - Manual" he enumerates the tribes and sets forth some phonetic and grammatic differences between the dialects. On page 63 of his Geografia de las Lenguas de Mexico, 1864, Orozco y Berra gives a list of the languages of Mexico and includes Coahuilteco, indicating it as the language of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. He does not, however, indicate its extension into Texas. It would thus seem that he intended the name as a general designation for the language of all the cognate tribes. Upon his...
Page 83 - Quepo, whose extreme limit toward the southeast was the old Chiriqui River. According to the most probable conjectures, the Quepos belonged to the family of the Guetares and lived, by preference, on the coasts. They were also enemies of the Mangues and the Cotos and Borucas, and in consequence of their wars with them and with the Whites, and with the burden of labors laid upon them by the latter, their towns disappeared in the middle of the eighteenth century without leaving any positive traces'...
Page 84 - They were brought to the location there, which they now occupy, in Aldea or Terraba, partly by the persuasion of the missionaries, partly by force, having been obliged to abandon the rough mountains to the north about the head waters of the Tilorio or Rio de la Estrella, the Yurquin, and the Rovalo, about the year 1697. They have been variously called Terbis. Terrebes, Terrabas, and Tirribies, but there are no differences of dialect between them and their relatives to the north, other than would...
Page 84 - The Terrabas, who have given their name to the river formerly called the Coto, do not belong to the tribes of the Pacific Slope. They were brought to the location there, which they now occupy, in Aldea or Terraba, partly by the persuasion of the missionaries, partly by force, having been obliged to abandon the rough mountains to the north about the headwaters of the Tilorio or Rio de la Estrella, the Yurquin, and the Rovalo, about the year 1697.
Page 83 - ' qualli," good, convenient, w ith the locative suffix "can." Qualcan means, therefore, "good place," or, as it is translated in Molina's Vocabulary, "a well-sheltered and desirable place," which answers well to the valley of Cartago. Southeast of Chorotega and the heights of Herradura, and south of the Guetares, extending to the Pacific Ocean, between the rivers Pirris and Grande of Terraba, was the province of the Quepos, of which the Spanish Government formed the district of Qnepo, whose extreme...
Page 84 - Terrabas, Changuenes and Borucas, their affinities to the tribes to the east of them are well marked and it would not be surprising if they were also closely related to the natives between Paria and Darien, and even with the Chibchas of Colombia, as has been maintained by Brinton.
Page 83 - These formed a numerous and warlike tribe, skillful in both offense and defense. They are not known in Costa Rica by this name; but there is no doubt that the Borucas are their descendants. These Borucas occupied the region about Golfo Dulce, formerly the gulf of Osa, east of the river Terraba...
Page 38 - In his statement that the language and tribes are extinct this author was mistaken, as a few Indians still survive who speak one of the dialects of this family, and in 1886 Mr. Gatschet collected vocabularies of two tribes, the Comecrudo and Cotoname, who live on the Rio Grande, at Las Prietas, State of Tamaulipas. Of the Comecrudo some twenty-five still remain, of whom seven speak the language. The Cotoname are practically extinct, although Mr.