1S92.] "^ [Brinton. 



Assuming with most Kechuists that the trend of migration was 

 from north to south, we should look towards the north for the oldest 

 forms of the tongue. This, as I have said, Von Tschudi did ; but 

 both he and Dr. Middendorf state that they had not seen the work 

 on the Quiteno dialect printed at Lima in 1753, "O'' apparently any 

 MS. on the structure of the northernmost branches of the tongue. 



A vocabulary is mentioned by Von Tschudi, dated in 1S14, which 

 gives words of the idiom as spoken in the dioceses of Maynas and 

 Ucayali. 



This could be supplemented by a later MS. in my library, con- 

 taining a Diccionario castellano-inga (y ingacastelland) segun se 

 habla en las montanas limitrofes del Ucayali and a Gramatica del 

 idioma Inga acomodado al modo de hablar de los manoitas y Maynas. 

 It is dated 1868, and the author is given as Fr. Mariano Castellan- 

 zuelo ; but it appears, in part at least, to be founded on some earlier 

 work. 



A comparison of this MS. with the grammars of Von Tschudi 

 and Middendorf shows that the dialect of Maynas, the most eastern 

 of all the Kechua dialects, is more closely akin to the Cuzceno than 

 to the Quiteno, both in vocabulary and structure. It does not pre- 

 sent the terminal nga to the verbal stem, common in the latter. In 

 vocabulary it is nearer the classical Kechua than to the Chinchaya ; 

 for example : 



For the Aymara, the comparison should be made with its purest 

 form. This was confessedly the Pacasa dialect and not the Lupaca, 

 in which the Arte and Diccionario of Bertonio were composed. At 

 present, although the distinction between the dialects has been in a 

 measure erased by the facilities of modern intercourse, there remain 

 extensive variations both in grammar and vocabulary.* The excel- 

 lent work of Dr. Middendorf is founded on what purports to be 

 the Pacasa ; and in the Brown Library, at Providence, there is a 

 modern folio MS. by D. B. de Merian, entitled Hisioria D. N. 



*Dr. E. W. Middendorf, Die Aymara-Sprachc, Eiiileitung (Leipzig, 1891). 



