IMfl.] BRINTON — VOCABULARIES FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 321 



ON TWO UNCLASSIFIED RECENT VOCABULARIES 

 FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



BY DANIEL G. BRINTOX, M.D. 



{Read October 21, 1808.) 



The time has' almost passed when any South American Indian 

 can speak in an unknown tongue. The hundreds and even thou- 

 sands of '* radically distinct " languages which the early travelers 

 and missionaries supposed to exist on that continent have been 

 r.educed to about sixty linguistic stocks, with a fair prospect of 

 further diminution when materials for analysis become available. 



To aid in this work it is important that each vocabulary collected 

 by travelers be scrutinized and referred to its appropriate stock, if 

 known, and, if not, that it be noted for further consideration. In 

 pursuance of this, I shall briefly examine two vocabularies from 

 South America which have been published within the last year, but 

 which have not been referred by the writers who obtained them to 

 any of the leading stocks. 



The first is furnished by Mr. A. Rimbach, in his ''Reise ini 

 Gebiet des oberen Amazonas," printed in the Zeitschrift der 

 Gesellschaft filr Erdkunde, Berlin, 1897, p. 379. He calls it the 

 " Gay " language, and adds that he obtained it from some Andoas 

 Indians whom he encountered on the lower reaches of the river 

 Pastaza. He gives only five words, which are as follows : 



This vocabulary belongs to what I have called in my work. The- 

 Americafi Race, to the *' Zaparo " linguistic stock, as is easily seen. 

 Ji)y comparing it with the Zaparo vocabulary collected by the Italian, 

 traveler, Osculati.' 



Although by some writers the Andoas have been said to speak 

 Quichua, this has been refuted by Tyler and others.' The name. 



^ Esplorazione delle Regioni Eqiiatoriali, K^t^^. (A'lilan, 1850). 

 ^ Cf. Tyler, in The Geographical Journal, ^yyn^, 1894. 



