180 BRINTOX — LINGUISTIC CARTOGEAPHY. [Oct. 7, 



and the Payagua/ Since then a number of contributions to the 

 subject and several ethnographic maps of parts of the region have 

 been furnished by J. B. Ambrosetti, J. de Brettes, Guido Boggiani, 

 Dr. G. A. Colini, Giovanni Pelleschi, Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo, 

 and others, and some unpublished manuscripts of early date have 

 seen the light in print, the titles of which are given in the biblio- 

 graphic note at the close of this paper. j\Iy present intention is 

 to offer a summary of their results in the linguistic ethnography of 

 the Chaco region, as depicted in the revised chart which I have 

 prepared, and to present some suggestions for the correct classifica- 

 tion of tribes of still uncertain affinities. 



The writer to whom we owe most is Mr. S. A. Lafone Quevedo. 

 He has edited the manuscripts of Tavolini, Brigniel, Barcena and 

 others, and contributed numerous articles of his own, and deserves 

 the highest credit for his zeal and accuracy. 



He entertains, however, certain linguistic theories which would 

 with difficulty find general acceptance, and which expose some of 

 his reasonings to serious question. 



Thus, he maintains that there is a fundamental difference between 

 what he calls the ''Atlantic" type of languages and the '' Pacific" 

 or ''Andean," based upon the trait that the latter suffix the pronom- 

 inal particles while the former prefix them. 



This, as a mere matter of placement, is of minor importance. For 

 example, the Latin has the pronominal indications suffixed to the 

 verbal root ; but the neo-Latin tongues without exception prefix them. 

 In America, the dialects of the Zoque-]Mixe stock differ entirely 

 among themselves in this respect, though closely allied in others. - 



He himself acknowledges (x, p. 23) that the dialects of the 

 Guaycuru stock are by no means a unit in this feature, some prefix- 

 ing and others suffixing the pronominal particles. 



His general classification is : 



ANDEAN TYPE (SUFFIXES). ATLANTIC TYPE (PREFIXES). 



Araucanian, Tupi-Guarani, 



Aymara, jMataco, 



Quechua, Guaycuru. 



Lule, "^ 



Vilela. 



"^The American Race. A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic 

 Description of the Native Tribes of North and Sonth America, pp. 392 (New 

 York, 1 89 1). 



2 Raoul de la Grasserie, Langtie Zoque ct Langue Mixe, Introduction fParis, 

 1898). 



