1892.] ^*^ [Brinton. 



'Mixc\ug{i&t&,^ macc7ny llacta, washing towa, place where large solid things 

 are washed ; quite suitable to the village of the name on the eastern 

 end of Lake Andalgala. 



The Kechua origin of these names is plain. But if the Caca or 

 Catamareno, as it is sometimes called, was merely a dialect of the 

 Kechua, why did Barzana speak of it as a separate tongue? Pos- 

 sibly because the differences in sound were so great as to render it 

 unintelligible to a person familiar only with the dialect of Cuzco. 



For the present the evidence seems sufificient to consider the 

 Calchaquis a more or less mixed branch of the Kechua family, and 

 the supposition formerly advanced by myself and others that they 

 constituted an independent stock seems unwarranted. 



The Quiteno dialect was held by Von Tschudi to present features 

 of higher antiquity than that of Cuzco. So far as I know, there 

 are few published specimens of it.^ 



The Chinchasuyu or Chinchaya dialect, also one of the northern 

 branches of the tongue, has been suflficiently analyzed by Von 

 Tschudi in his work on the language, his materials being drawn 

 from the Appendix to the second and third editions of Diego de 

 Torres Rubio's Ar/e de la lengiia Quechua, and from the manu- 

 scripts of the German engineer, Hermann Gohring.f He finds the 

 pronunciation softer. Certain differences in the verbs appear, in 

 part, to be neologisms. And there is a rather large number of 

 words which are wholly diverse in the two dialects. 



The Lamano is said by Von Tschudi to be closely allied to the 

 Quiteno, but he acknowledges that he was not personally familiar 

 with it. 



Whether the Incas, that is, the gens from whom the war and 

 peace chiefs were selected, had a language or dialect peculiar to 

 themselves, as asserted by Garcilasso de la Vega — and by nobody 

 else — has been again brought up for discussion lately by Dr. E. W. 

 Middendorf, He maintains that they had, and that this secret 

 language was the Aymara.J This he does in the face of the fact 

 that every one of the eleven words which Garcilasso quotes from 

 this mysterious tongue turns out either to be pure Kechua or from a 



* An Arlc, printed at Lima in 1753, of this dialect, is mentioned by Ludewig, Lit. of 

 Amer. Aborig. Langs., p. 162. 



t Organismus der Ketchua Sprache, Einleitung, p. 65. 



tSee the Introduction to his work, Das Buna Simi oder dcr Keshua-Sprache (Leipzig, 

 1890). 



