THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 67 
followed in this respect in the map accompanying this paper, though 
Stoll has been the writer’s guide as to the portion in Guatemala. 
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This dialect is placed by Stoll in his Mam division of the Mayan stock. 
As the language is now well enough understood to classify it properly, 
it is necessary that we note here only the habitat. Stoll, the author- 
ity followed in this case, locates the area occupied by the tribe slightly 
west of the center of Guatemala, including the pueblos of Nebaj, 
-Cotzal, and Chajul as the chief centers of population. As given by 
him, the Rio Negro or Chixoy formed the eastern boundary of the 
tribal territory at the time to which his map relates. The reduced 
area given by Sapper is included in that given by Stoll. According 
to the latter, it lay between the Mam area on the west and that of the 
Kekchi on the east, joining the Kiche territory on the south. 
AGUACATECA 
This idiom also is placed by Stoll and philologists generally in the 
Mam division. The small area occupied by the tribe included Agua- 
cateca and the present Huehuetenango, joining the Mam area on the 
north and west, and the Kiche territory on the east and south. The 
reduced area given by Sapper falls within the bounds indicated 
by Stoll. Although the dialect agrees most nearly with Mam, 
the strong influence of the neighboring Kiche and Ixil dialects is 
apparent in the vocabulary. 
KICHE 
(Synonym: Quiche) 
The Kiche (or Quiche) dialect is second in importance and terri- 
torial extent only to the Maya (proper) of the languages of the 
Mayan stock; however, it is now so well known that comments are 
unnecessary here. Stoll makes it the basis of his Kiche division 
of the stock. The area occupied by the tribe was and still is quite 
extensive, including considerable territory in central Guatemala 
about the headwaters of Rio Motagua, and extending thence around 
the western side of Lake Atitlan southward to the Pacific Ocean, this 
southern extension being in contact with the Mam territory on. the 
west and the Cakchikel territory on the east. Included are the fol- 
lowing among the more important towns or pueblos: Santa Cruz 
Quiche, Rabinal, Totonicapan, Quetzaltenango, and Mazatenango. 
The somewhat diminished area designated by Sapper is included in 
the bounds given by Stoll. 
CAKCHIKEL 
This is one of the dialects embraced by Stoll in his Kiche division: 
it is, in fact, but a subdialect of the Kiche. The tribe lives in the 
