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which the area is around the pueblo of Coixtlahuaca, although he 
does not include it in his list of pueblos (1: 196). 
The Tlapanec group is located by Orozco y Berra in Guerrero, 
along the southwestern boundary of the Mixtec territory. The 
Popoloco, as stated above and demonstrated by a vocabulary col- 
lected by Dr. Berendt, anciently spoke a Mixe dialect. 
AMISHGO 
(Synonym: Amusgo, Amuchco) 
This language belongs to the Zapotecan family and appears to be 
a dialect of Mixtec. According to Orozco y Berra’s map, which is 
followed here, the people speaking it occupied a wedge-shaped area 
extending northward from the Pacific coast into the Mixtec territory 
about the middle of its southern boundary. Villa-Sefior y Sanchez 
(11, 162-163) refers to the tribe (subtribe) and the idiom, but does 
not definitely give the location. It is noticeable that the names of 
several of the pueblos mentioned by Orozco y Berra end in tepec, 
indicating the presence of a Mexican element. 
CHATINO 
The Chatino are resident in Oaxaca, in the departments of Centro 
and Jamiltepec, and are wedged between the Mixtec and the 
Zapotec, extending from the Pacific coast northward. Orozco y 
Berra (1:189) says merely, ‘“‘In the departments of Centro and 
Jamiltepec between the Zapotec and Mixtec,” and gives a list of the 
pueblos where the language is spoken. He places it in his list of 
unclassified languages. 
The author has not succeeded in finding the evidence by which to 
determine its linguistic relations, but following other writers it has_ 
been classed provisionally as Zapotecan. 
MAZATECO 
The Mazatec tribe is located on our map in Oaxaca, along the 
northern border of the Zapotec area where the Puebla and Vera Cruz 
lines meet, extending slightly into the latter. Orozco y Berra says, 
in the department of Teotitlan; Professor Starr says, in the districts of 
Cuicatlan and Teotitlan; Belmar (2:1) says, in the district of Teotitlan 
del Camino, state of Oaxaca. Clavigero states that northward of the 
Mixtecas was the province of Mazatlan, the inhabitants of which were 
called Mazatecas (1, 6). 
Orozco y Berra did not attempt to Epa the language, but Pi- 
mentel was inclined to refer it to the “‘Mixteco-Zapoteco”’ stock, or 
what is here termed the Zapotecan family. This assignment is now 
universally accepted by students. It seems to be closely related to 
Chocho and Trike, especially the former. Belmar (2:1) says the lan- 
