rHoMAs] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 65 
CHICOMUCELTECA 
This is the idiom spoken by a small tribe first brought to* notice 
by Sapper, who considered it a dialect of Huasteca. He locates the 
tribe in southeastern Chiapas, adjoining the southern Chafiabal area 
on the west, including the pueblos Chicomucelo and Montenegro. 
His mapping has been followed. 
MOorTozINTLECA 
This is also an idiom first mentioned, so far as the writer’s data 
show, by Sapper. The locality indicated on his map V is a small area 
about Motozintla in the southeastern corner of Chiapas, in the western 
border of the Mam territory as given by him. Judging by the brief 
vocabulary it seems to be closely related to the Jacalteca. By mis- 
take the Nahuatlan red on the linguistic map has been carried over 
the territory occupied by them. 
TAPACHULTECA 
Bh uper mentions (2: 244) and marks on his map V an idiom under 
this name which he makes a dialect of the Mixe, now well nigh extinct. 
The small area marked on his map is in the extreme southeastern 
corner of Chiapas and in the southern border of the Mam territory, 
embracing the pueblo of Tapachula. Charencey (91), Orozco y 
Berra (on map), and Stoll (1:134) state that the language spoken at 
Tapachula was Mam, but as the original tongue is dying out, both 
languages are probably spoken there. (See Zoque, p. 60.) 
SUBINHA 
Nothing further has been found in regard to this idiom than the 
brief vocabulary given in the Lenguas Indigenas de Centro-America 
en el Siglo XVIII. According to the brief statement at the end it was 
copied from the original “‘existente en este Archivo de Indias, bajo la 
rotulacién de ‘Audiencia de Guatemala.—Duplicados de Gobernadores 
Presidentes.—1788-1790.’’’! ; 
No attempt has been made to locate on the map the region in which 
this idiom was used. 
J ACALTECA 
The writer has grave doubts as to the propriety of retaining 
Jacalteca and Chuje as names of different dialects. The vocabulary 
of the Chuje, which appears to have been obtained only by Rockstroh, 
1 It seems to have been obtained or transmitted with some explanations by Josef Anselmo Ortiz, who dates 
his communication Zocaltenango. As Zocaltenango is evidently the same as Jacaltenango, where the Jacal- 
teca idiom (a close relation of the Chuje) was spoken, the vocabulary, which does not appear to have been 
well recorded, may pertain to one of the several dialects of this region. 
