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66 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44
is very brief and, if the writer may judge, not very carefully taken,
notwithstanding that Stoll has followed it, Chuje and Jacalteca (of
which we have a fuller vocabulary) are certamly very closely allied.
The latter was spoken throughout a small area around the pueblo
of Jacaltenango near the northwestern boundary of Guatemala.
This territory is included in the area marked xv (?) on Stoll's map.
Misled by Juarres, Stoll has marked the red area around Jacaltenango
as Pokomam territory, an error he subsequently corrected. (See
Pohomam.) It is located on the present map, pending the discovery
of further evidence as to relationship with the Chuje.
Chuje
(Synonym: Chuhe)
This idiom, at present classed as a dialect of Choi, is most closely
related to, if not identical with, Jacalteca; it is spoken now, accord-
ing to Stoll (1:135), from Nenton to San Sebastian on the east.
The area as marked by Sapper is in Guatemala near the western
border, adjoining the Jacaltecan territory on the north, but does
not include Nenton (or Neuton, as he writes it), leaving it a little to
the west of the boundary he gives. His mapping is here followed,
except that the boundary is carried westward to include Nenton.
ACHIS
It is said that this dialect (now extinct) was formerly spoken in Gua-
temala—Brinton(3 : 158) says in eastern Guatemala. As yet the writer
has found no data on which this conclusion could be based except a
mere mention by Palacio (20). As he names this tribe in connection
with the Mam, their location in the eastern part of the republic would
seem to be incorrect. Is it not possible they were the Aguacateca
or the jacalteca, tribes bordering the Mam territory ? Of course this
name has not been placed on the map.
Mam
{Synonym: Zaklohpakap)
As this language, which is considered one of the most archaic of
the Mayan stock (Iluasteca alone standing before it in this respect),
has been rather carefully studied, it is necessary to call attention
only to the habitat of the tribe. This was the western portion of
Guatemala, extending westward for a short distance into Soconusco
and southward to the Pacific Ocean. As Stoll's map is restricted to
Guatemala, it does not show the extension into Soconusco. Orozco y
Berra marks a small area "Mamc" in the extreme southeastern corner
of Soconusco, but Sapper gives a larger extension; the latter has been