58 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuULL. 44 
MIXTEC ZAPOTEC 
1 ec (ce?) tobi, chaga 
2 wui, uvui topa, cato 
3 uni chona, cayo 
4 kmi, qmi tapa, taa 
5 hoho caayo 
6 ino xopa 
7 ucha caache 
8 una xoono 
9 ee caa, gaa 
10 usi chii 
11 usice chiibitobi 
12 usiwui chiibitopa, chiibicato 
13 usiuni chiino, chiibichona 
20 oco calle 
30 oconsi callebichii 
40 wuidzico toua 
60 unidzico cayona 
100 hohodzico cayoa 
We have also the comparison as judged by the ear. Remesal (321), 
speaking of Mixtec, says: 
Deprendio muy en breve la lengua de aquella nacion, que es dificultosa de saberse, 
por la gran equivocacion de los bocablos, para cuya distincion es necessario usar de 
ordinario del sonido de la nariz y aspiracion del aliéto. e 
Burgoa (Palestra, pt. 1. fol. 211, fide Bancroft, m1, 749) calls it 
“a lengua dificultosissima en la pronunciacion, con notable variedad 
de terminos y vozes en unos y otros Pueblos.” 
This statement of its being difficult and harsh appears to be gen- 
erally accepted. (See also Starr’s statement, p. 37.) 
On the other hand, Brasseur de Bourbourg (Esquisses, 35, fide Ban- 
croft, ut, 754) says, ‘‘La langue Zapotéque est d’une douceur et 
dune sonorité qui rappelle l’Italien.”” Burgoa speaks of it in much ~ 
the same way (Bancroft, ibid). In the ‘‘advertencia”’ to the anony- 
mous Vocabulario Castellano-Zapoteco is the following statement: 
“Por la ortografia, y por muchas palabras y frases, personas inteligentes 
juzgan que presenta un lenguaje bastante alterado ya.”’ 
These facts appear to call for a careful re-examination of the subject 
by philologists. 
CHONTAL 
(Synonym: Tequistlateca) 
The tribe here alluded to under the name Chontal includes the 
Indians forming a small group residing in the southern portion of the 
Zapotec territory on the Pacific coast. The area occupied by them 
is chiefly in the district of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, extending to 
Guerrero, ; | 
