THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 17 
territory of Orozco y Berra’s map, where it abuts on the Mexican 
(Aztec) territory, the two languages, which seem to have been cog- 
nate, may have been, and in all probability were, idioms of the 
Yaqui group. Although the evidence on this point is not positive, 
they were probably in the territory of the Yaqui group. 
Orozco y Berra seems to be justified by the evidence in placing 
Nio on his map as a distinct idiom, though extinct. It is stated by 
Zapata (404-405) that a league and a half northeast of San Pedro 
Guazave was the pueblo of San Ignacio de Nio, in which the language 
spoken was ‘‘particular,’’ called Nio, though Mexican was also in 
common use. The only subsequent mention found is that by Alegre 
(1, 294), who states that Padre Mendez commended the pueblos and 
languages of the Ocoroiri [Ocoroni], Nio, and some others which he 
had held, to the charge of Padre Tapia. This evidence, though direct, 
is somewhat slender, yet the name has been placed within the Cahita 
territory on the map accompanying this volume, surrounded, how- 
ever, with a narrow line. 
The evidence in regard to Basopa, which Orozco y Berra places in 
his list of lahguages, is very meager, the only notice, so far as known, 
being the statement by Zapata (408) to the effect that five leagues 
to the north [of Concepcién de Chicorato] is the pueblo of San Ignacio 
deChicuris. ‘The language is in part Tepehuana and in part Basopa, 
which is that which is commonly spoken.” Zapata says, further, 
(407) that in Concepcién de Chicorato the natives are divided into 
two parties which speak distinct languages, “the Chicurata, and 
the Basopa.’”’ This appears to be the only authority on which Orozco 
y Berra bases the introduction of these two names into his list of lan- 
guages. Both are extinct. 
ZOE AND TEPAHUE 
Zoe and Baimena, both extinct languages, can best be considered 
together, as it seems they were related. 
The Zoe occupied a limited region on the eastern border of the 
territory of the Yaqui group, on the headwaters of the Rio del Fuerte 
adjoming the Tubar area. The tribe was a small one, speaking a 
language of its own. The Baimena, who joined them on the south, 
probably spoke a dialect of the same tongue. Ribas (208) says the 
Zoe were mountain Indians, residing about the headwaters of the 
Rio Sinaloa (del Fuerte) in the skirts of the sierra, and spoke 
a language different from that of the Simaloas. He also states, 
page 145 (‘tienen tambien amistad los Ahomes, y parentesco, y 
son de la misma lengua con los Guagaues’”’), that they maintained 
friendly relations with the Ahome, and were related to and spoke 
the same language as the Guazave, who, as has been shown above, 
were related to the Yaqui group and spoke a dialect of their lan- 
