Indian languages of Mexico and Central America and their geographical distribution / by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton ; accompanied with a linguistic map.

  • Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Indian languages of Mexico and Central America and their geographical distribution / by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton ; accompanied with a linguistic map. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cajuenches Chiuarraa Coras (of Lower Cali- fornia). Cumupas, Buasdabas. Ilimeris (Uymeris)... classes Tehue with Eudeve, but without considering it a distinct idiom, as he does not include it in his list of languages. After giving an extract from Francisco Carets, Orozco y Berra (1: 350) says this may appear at first not to correspond with what he (Orozco y Berra) has said, as according to it the nations dwelling along the Colorado river, beginning at the mouth, were the Cucapa, Jallicuamay, Cajuenche, Jalchedun, and Jamajab, where he had placed the Quiqui- mas, Cuhanas, and Yumas. He claims, however, that the contradiction will disappear when we consider that the Cuhanes and Cucapas were one and the same tribe and that the others are nothing more yian families [bands?] derived from the pueblos speaking Pima. As it is clear from Garc6s’ Diario that the Cajuenche were north of the Cocopa and were Yuman, they should be considered as belonging to the United States. Accotding to Orozco y Berra (1: 325), the Chinarra, or llama, occupied the pueblo of Santa Ana, in Chihuahua. This, he states, was situated to the southeast of the Tarahumare ter- ritory, apparently in the southern part of the area he has assigned to the Concho on his map. Arlegui (110) brings them into relation with the Concho, who, he says, anciently inhabited a large area and many pueblos, some of which were occupied subsequently by tlie Tarahumare. Then follows the list of other “naciones” of this region—Tobosos, Chizos, Cocoyames, Acoclames, Julimes, Tapacolmes, Chi- narras, etc. Orozco y Berra, probably on the authority of Hervas as given below, says the Chinarras spoke a ifexican dialect (“dialecto Mexicano”). Hervas (312) says that the missionary Rafael Palacios informed him (in a letter) that the Cinarras dwelt about 28 leagues north of the Conchos; that while they spoke Spanish, yet he had heard them speaking together a language which to his ear appeared to be Mexican. They informed him that they were derived from the Conchos. It would seem from this that they lived near the international boundary line. This name has been applied to a subtribe of the Waicuri, and is mentioned here merely to call attention to the dis- tinction to be made between it and the well-kno^vn tribe of the same name in the state of Jalisco, discussed in the first part of these notes. Same reference and remark as under Bapispes, above. Alegre (ii, 343) says the Hymeri were a “nacion” situated in the various valleys formed by the Sierra Madre northwest of the vallqy of Sonora—that is to say, in the Opata country. According to Ribas, they were ferocious, holding friendship with no other people, from which fact Hervas (337) thinks it probable they spoke a dialect distinct from that of the Opatas, though they were related to that people. Orozco y Berra (1:58) classes them with the Opata without idiomatic distinction. Same remark as for Tahue. Mediotaguel