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Still more recently an effort has been made by Dr. A. Ernst, of 

 Caracas, to establish a linguistic connection between the dialects of 

 the Timote stock, who occupy the Cordillera in the district of 

 Merida (8° N. lat.), and the Costa Rican dialects, thus bringing 

 the Timotes into the Chibcha stock, as he expressly claims. He 

 goes yet further and seeks to discover verbal identities between the 

 Timote and the Guatuso, spoken in Nicaragua on the Rio Frio. 

 The latter is not supposed to be related to the Costa Rican dialects, 

 which makes Dr. Ernst's theory the more important could it be 

 substantiated. He has published a list of forty-five words in an 

 article in the Boletin del Ministerio de Obras Publicas for April 8, 

 1891 (Caracas, Venezuela), on which he bases his claim. I trans- 

 late and arrange these words, and shall examine the alleged 

 analogies. 



Supposed Affinities between Timote, Costa Rican and 

 Guatuso Words. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXX. 137. M, PRINTED MARCH 30, 1892. 



