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BRINTON — LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY. 



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nominal suffix, and which appears also in one of the tribal names of 

 the Machicuy given by Hervas. This relationship has been accepted 

 by Boggiani (v). 



No connection of this with any other tongue has yet been shown. 

 There are a few similarities to the Tsoneca of Patagonia, but not 

 sufficient to establish a relationship.^ 



The word pehec or pe' ec seems a general term in both tongues 

 for the leg and foot. 



The Arawack Stock. 



One of the various hordes called Guanas dwells north of Corumba, 

 in the province of Mato Grasso. They are also spoken of as Chiia- 

 las, which is merely a variant, and Layanas, another variant. The 

 Terenos on the river Miranda are their neighbors and relatives. 

 These belong to the Arawack stock, which extended its various 

 branches in an unbroken line from the Bahama Islands, off the coast 

 of Florida, nearly to the river Pilcomayo of the Chaco. 



The relationship of this remote southern branch to the main stem 

 is illustrated in the following comparisons : 



^The Tsoneca words are from H. Hale, Ethnography and Philology of the 

 U. S. Exploring Expedition. 



