190 BRINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. [Oct 7, 



the Morotocos.^ Muratori adds that it was one of the three native 

 languages officially taught in the Paraguay missions." 



The Ennima Stock. 



Since the publication of my AmeiHcan Race, a new linguistic 

 stock has been discovered in the Chaco region. The first vocabu- 

 lary of it was published by M. de Brettes, in 1892, containing 

 about 130 words collected in 1887.' In the same year a posthu- 

 mous work by Senor Juan de Cominges was printed in Buenos 

 Aires, containing a list collected in 1879; ^^^^ i^ ^^95? Senor 

 Guido Boggiani published in Rome a careful collection of terms he 

 had formed in 1889, republishing the vocabulary of Cominges, but 

 apparently not being aware of that of de Brettes.^ This last differs 

 notably from the others, introducing various Samucu and Guaycuru 

 terms, but well representing the groundwork of the tongue. 



The name first given to this stock was Guana. This is a common 

 noun in the Tupi-Guarani language, a term of respect, something 

 equivalent to " fine " or ''learned people,"^ and was applied by 

 them to various nations whose cultural condition impressed them 

 favorably. Later Sr. Boggiani has proposed the more acceptable 

 term Ennima, a designation applied to them by their neighbors to 

 the north and which may as well be adopted.^ 



The location of the stock is on the right bank of the Para- 

 guay, 21° 30' to 23° and westward nearly to the Bolivian line. 

 Boggiani includes in it the tribes known as Guanas, Sanapanas, 

 Sapuquis, Angaites and "Lenguas." To these must be added 

 the Machicuys and the Chaco tribes mentioned by de Brettes 

 as speaking "Guana," the Neenssemakas, the Kamananghas and 

 the Banghis. 



Hervas located the Machicuys on a branch of the Rio Pilcomayo 

 in the centre of the Chaco. They numbered about 1200 warriors 



'^Relacion historial de los Indios Chiquitos, pp. 316, 371, 394. 



"^ II Cristianesifuo felice nel Paraguay, y^. 132. The others were that of the 

 *' Guananis " (Guarani) and of the Chiquitos. 



^ Mallat de Eassilan, V Amcrique Inconnue, Appendix. 



^Reale Academia dei Lincei, Roma, 1895. 



^ " Edles Volk," "die Gelehrten," Martins, Ethnog. ttnd Sprachenkunde,V>di. 

 ii, pp. 172, 788. An abbreviation of Guayana. 



^See Boggiani, "Etnografia del alto Paraguay," in Boletin del Instituto Geo- 

 grafico Argentina, 1898, p. ii. 



