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parative work on material other than that presented by Busch- 

 niaim himself was attempted. These articles 53 may be considered 

 as definitely establishing the validity of the hypothesis. Detailed 

 phonetic comparisons are there made establishing uniform philo- 

 gical laws of correspondence and change which can leave no doubt 

 of their force. The present paper makes no claim to be in any 

 manner comparative but it is a source of gratification to the 

 author that it has served as an aid in the elucidation of this im- 

 portant problem. 



The Piman or Sonoran branch, as it may be termed, of the 

 Uto-Aztekan stock appears to fall into three main divisions: the 

 northern, consisting of Cahita or Yaqui, Opata and probably Tara- 

 humare and Eudeve; the southern, consisting of Cora and Huichol; 

 and the central, consisting of Upper and Lower Pima, Papago, 

 Northern and Southern Tepehuane and Tepecano. Each group has 

 its phonetic peculiarities. Judging from a lexical standard, the 

 former group displays considerable resemblance to Nahuatl, the 

 latter group very little. 



APPENDIX 

 SPECIMEN TEXTS 



Four mythological or descriptive texts are here appended for the 

 purpose of illustrating the processes of the language. While few 

 in number, these compose the total of such texts collected. The 

 great majority of native Tepecano texts secured were set prayers 

 which will be published separately in conjunction with an expo- 

 sition of Tepecano religion. Hut while the following texts constitute 

 but a small part of the material collected, they contain rather the 

 greater part of the lexical material and the morphological examples, 

 since the prayers are more or less cast in the same mould and 

 contain much repetition. 



Each of the appended texts is given with literal interlinear trans- 

 lation and followed by free translation and morphological analysis. 



63 Edward Sapir, Southern Paiute and Nahuatl, A Stadj in I lo-Aztckan, Journal de 

 hi Societe des Americanistcs de I'aris. The lirst part, treating of the vowels, appeared 

 in Tome \ (nouvelle se'rie), 1913. The second and third parts, treating of the conso- 

 nants, have appeared in the American Anthropologist, n. s., Vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2, 1915. 

 A fourth pari 'in comparative morphology is promised for B later date. 



