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thomas] indian languages of mexico and centkal america 65
Chicomucelteca
This is the idiom spoken by a small tribe first brought to' notice
by Sapper, who considered it a dialect of Huasteca. He locates the
tribe in southeastern Chiapas, adjoining the southern Chanabal area
on the west, including the pueblos Chicomucelo and Montenegro.
His mapping has been followed.
Motozintleca
This is also an idiom first mentioned, so far as the writer's data
show, by Sapper. The locality indicated on his map v is a small area
about Motozintla in the southeastern corner of Chiapas, in the western
border of the Mam territory as given by him. Judging by the brief
vocabulary it seems to be closely related to the Jacalteca. By mistake
the Nahuatlan red on the linguistic map has been carried over
the territory occupied by them.
Tapachulteca
Sapper mentions (2 : 244) and marks on his map v an idiom under
this name which he makes a dialect of the Mixe, now well nigh extinct.
The small area marked on his map is in the extreme southeastern
corner of Chiapas and in the southern border of the Mam territory,
embracing the pueblo of Tapachula. Charencey (91), Orozco y
Berra (on map), and StoU (1 :134) state that the language spoken at
Tapachula was Mam, but as the original tongue is dying out, both
languages are probably spoken there. (See Zoque, p. 60.)
SUBINHA
Nothing further has been found in regard to this idiom than the
brief vocabulary given in the Lenguas Indigenas de Centro-America
en el Siglo XVIII. According to the brief statement at the end it was
copied from the origmal "existente en este Archivo de Indias, bajo la
rotulacion de 'Audiencia de Guatemala.—Duplicados de Gobernadores
Presidentes.— 1788-1790.' " ^
No attempt has been made to locate on the map the region in which
this idiom was used.
Jacalteca
The writer has grave doubts as to the propriety of retaining
Jacalteca and Chuje as names of different dialects. The vocabulary
of the Chuje, which appears to have been obtained only by Rockstroh,
1 It seems to have been obtained or transmitted with some explanations by Josef Ansehno Ortiz, who dates
his communication Zocaltenango. As Zoealtenango is evidently the same as Jacaltenango, where the Jacal-
teca idiom (a close relation of the Chuje) was spoken, the vocabulary, which does not appear to have been
well recorded, may pertain to one of the several dialects of this region.