THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 4 
east by the Huasteca, on the south by the Otomi, and on the west 
by the Guachichile. Their territory embraced parts of the states of 
Mexico, Querétaro, Guanajuato, and San Luis Potosi. 
As shown in the note below,! Francisco Palou gives them a some- 
what extended area. Orozco y Berrasays (1:48): The Pame [dialect]is 
used in the mission of Cerro Prieto, in the state of Mexico, is extended 
principally to the pueblos of San Luis Potosi, and is also met with 
in Querétaro and in Guanajuato.’’ He mentions also other pueblos 
in these states. Pimentel (11, 265) says it was spoken in San Luis 
de la Paz, the territory of the Sierra Gorda, city of Maiz, Depart- 
ment of San Luis Potosi, and in Purisima Concepcién de Arnedo in 
the Sierra Gorda. 
According to the last-named authority (1, 265) there were three 
dialects of this language—one spoken in San Luis de la Paz, one 
in the city of Maiz, and the third in the Purisima Concepcion de 
Arnedo. No mention is made, however, of corresponding sub- 
tribes or clans. 
This language has recently been assigned, with probable correct- 
ness, though not on conclusive evidence, to the Otomi stock. Ale- 
gre (1, 282) pronounces the idiom difficult, and compares these Indians 
with the Otomi of the same locality (San Luis de la Paz), appar- 
ently indicating a belief in relationship, though not expressing 
such an opinion. Villa-Sefior y Sanchez (un, lib. 3, cap. 8), speak- 
ing of the Indians about San Luis de la Paz, says they are Pame, 
and, immediately after, that the Indians of this section speak Otomi. 
MAZAHUA 
The Mazahua area is located on Orozco y Berra’s map in the south- 
western portion of the state of Mexico, adjoining the Tarascan 
territory, though the traditional evidence locates the Mazahua more 
to the northeast. 
Clavigero (1, 105-106) says: 
The Mazahuas were once apart of the nation of the Otomies, as the languages of both 
nations are but different dialects of the same tongue. . . . The principal places 
which they inhabited were on the western mountains of the vale of Mexico, and formed 
the province of Mazahuacan, belonging to the crown of Tacuba. 
Orozco y Berra (1: 256) says that in the time of Aztec control this 
tribe belonged to the “kingdom” of Tlacopan, its pueblos marking 
the limits between it and the Michoacan territory. Pimentel (11, 
193), after quoting Clavigero’s statement, remarks that in his day 
a remnant of the tribe was found in the district of Ixtlahuaca, 
belonging to the department of Mexico. Brasseur de Bourbourg 
1 Treinta leguas distante de la expresada Ciudad de Querétaro, y se estiende 4 cien leguas de largo, y 
‘treinta de ancho, en cuyas brefias vivian los Indios de la Nacion Pame.—Vida de Junipero Serra, p. 23 
(fide Bancroft, 1, 672). 
