‘THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 69 
by Stoll in his Pokonchi division. The writer has followed Stoll’s 
map, with which Sapper’s agrees so far as he has given the area. 
POKONCHI 
This Mayan dialect, which Stoll has made the type of his Pokonchi 
division, was spoken throughout a fairly extensive territory in the 
center of Guatemala, about the headwaters of the Cahabon river, which 
included the pueblos Tactic, Tamaja, and Tucuru. Its northern 
border, where it joined the Kekchi territory, extended a short distance 
south of Coban. Stoll’s map has been followed, as Sapper’s shows no 
difference except in the extent of the area. 
POoKOMAM 
(Synonym: Pokam) 
This Mayan dialect, taken by some students as the type of the 
Pokonehi division of the stock, was spoken throughout a consider- 
able region in southeastern Guatemala, including the capital of the 
republic, extending northward to the Rio Grande or upper Motagua, 
and eastward to the boundary line between Guatemala and Salvador. 
Other pueblos included are Amatitlan, Jalapa, Petapa, and Mita. 
The territory given on the accompanying map is in accordance with 
the eastern Pokomam area given by Stoll. The smaller western area 
around Jacaltenango marked Pokomam was so given erroneously 
on the authority of Juarres, as already stated. The error is corrected 
by Stoll in his Die Sprache der Lxil-Indianer (1: 152-153). Sapper’s 
map shows two small detached areas, one at the western extremity 
and the other in the eastern part of the area assigned by Stoll, the 
remainder being marked as now wholly Spanish. 
CHORTI 
This language is included by Stoll in his Pokonchi division, seem- 
ingly on the strengt of the opinion expressed by Brasseur de Bour- 
bourg (2: pp. Ixxxiv, lxxxv, note 4), as he gives no vocabulary, but 
Sapper is inclined to place it in the Tzental group. Judging by the 
brief vocabulary, its closest affinity seems to be with Chol and Tzen- 
tal, indicating that Sapper’s conclusion, in which he follows Brinton, 
is correct. The territory throughout which Chorti was spoken lies 
along the eastern border of Guatemala, extending into Honduras and in- 
cluding the site of Copan. Eisen, as quoted by Stoll (2: 107), includes 
in the area Copan (in Honduras) and the high mountains around 
Jocotan (in Guatemala). Charencey (96) says the Chorti ‘‘flourished 
in all the province of Chiquimula (Rep. Guat.) up to the banks of 
the Gulf of Honduras [Dulce ?] arid along the borders of the Rio 
Polichic [Motagua].”’ In his map (vu) of ruin sites Sapper gives an 
