THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA a 
this writer and Pimentel distinguish Teca or Teco from the Cuitlateco, 
the former (1: 196) giving as equivalents Chocho, Popoloco, Tlapaneco, 
Pupuluca, and Yope, thus bringing it into relation with the Mixe group, 
while the Cuitlateco is confessedly a Nahuatlan tongue, a mere idiom 
of the Aztec, though the author quoted says he does not attempt to 
classify it. That the two are merely different names for the same 
people is clearly demonstrated by F. Plancarte (1888). 
In a note to the same article (26) Dr. N. Leén quotes from a work by 
Juan Joseph Moreno the statement that the language of the Cuitlate- 
cos was ‘‘a daughter of the Mexican or the Mexican barbarized,” and 
mentions an Arte by Dr. Martin de Espinosa. 
TARASCO 
(Synonym: Michoacano) 
As the only subjects engaging attention here are the languages and 
localities, it is unnecessary to introduce evidence where these have 
been satisfactorily determined. As the Tarascan language is now 
well known as constituting a separate family, and as the extent of it 
as given by Orozco y Berra on his map is confirmed as correct by 
Pimentel, it is not necessary to present further evidence. 
AZTEC 
(Synonym: Mexicano) 
For the reasons given above under Tarasco it is unnecessary to add 
- more here than the following statement. As Orozco y Berra, in laying 
off the territory in which this language prevailed, went over all the 
data available, taking pueblo after pueblo where it was spoken, it 
is necessary only to refer to his Geografia, and to add that two small 
areas in Sinaloa given by him under separate names, as stated above, 
have been included, and that the subtribes Tlascalan and Cuitlateco 
have been marked on our map in the Aztec area. Orozco y Berra 
(1:64) mentions as the states in which this language was spoken to 
a greater or less extent, Tabasco, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala, 
Guerrero, Mexico, Michoacan, Colima, San Luis, Sinaloa, Durango, 
Zacatecas, and Jalisco. Professor Starr (33-34) says: 
There are people of Aztec blood in the Republic of Mexico from the state of 
Sinaloa in the extreme North-west to the state of Chiapas in the South. In Sinaloa, 
Jalisco, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Colima, Vera, Cruz, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and 
Tabasco they occur, while the states of Guerrero, Mexico, Tlaxcala, Morelos, and 
Puebla are in large part occupied by them. In some districts Aztec is the common 
language. In the Republic there are probably more than 1,500,000 pure blood Indians 
who speak the Aztec language (this includes the Tlaxcalans). 
There is good evidence, nevertheless, that much of the area attributed 
to them, at least in northwestern Mexico, was standardized to Aztec 
