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THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 21
Topia as another language or dialect of the group, which idea Vater
has carried into his Mithridates (iii, pt. 3, 138-139), though admitting
relationship with Acaxee. Balbi makes it distinct from the latter;
but Orozco y Berra (1:319) differs wholly from this opinion, considering
the two as the same language. He quotes (1:314) manuscript
authority showing Topia to be merely the name of a province
or district.
Ahumada (96), writing in 1608, makes the Hume a "nacion"
distinct from the Jijime, though speaking the same language. Ribas
(562) says these Indians inhabit the highest part of the sierra as
one goes eastward. Alegre (ii, 199) also calls the Hume a "nacion"
and says the name was given to them from the configuration of the
natural defenses of their country. Hervas (327) expresses the opinion
that the Hume (Huime, as he writes it) were related to the Jijime.
Orozco y Berra also holds that both the Hume and Hina were related
to, or rather were offshoots of, the Jijime.
Alegre, speaking of the Hina (ii, 195), says they inhabited the most
profound breaks C' profundisimas quebradas") of the center of the
sierra and the margin of the Rio Piaztla, and spoke a diverse lan-
guage. Notwithstanding this evidence, Orozco y Berra, who perhaps
had additional data, although recognizing the Hume and the
Hina as separate or distinct peoples, and giving them in his list of
tribes, omits them from his list of languages, thereby expressing his
belief that they did not speak distinct idioms. It is considered
safest to follow his example.
In this connection it maybe as well to refer to the Huite. Ribas
(207) says their language was different from that of the Cinaloa (Ya-
qui group). Orozco y Berra (1: 333) says they were a warlike tribe,
at open strife with all their neighbors, and were anthropophagi.
Their location was in the sierra, about "seven leagues from the Sina-
loas." He adds that the name, which signifies " arrow " in Cahita, indi-
cates relationship of idiom to this language. Although he gives the
name in his list of languages, he omits it from the classification, map,
and extinct idioms. It has been omitted from the classified list in
this paper, and from the map, but with some doubt.
Cora
(Synonyms: Chora, Chota, Nayarita)
The people speaking this language hve in the Sierra de Nayarit
and on the Rio de Jesus Maria, in the state of Jalisco. They are the
most southerly tribe of what may be termed the Sonoran group of
the Nahuatlan family.
Orozco y Berra, whose mapping is followed substantially in reference
to the Cora territory, has marked this area according to the best