ib. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 44 
unless, as he supposes, the few words gathered by Sapper belong to it. 
These, so far as they go, seem to confirm the historical evidence that 
the language was very closely related -to, if not identical with, Maya 
proper. Pimentel and Orozco y Berra give Mopan as a synonym 
of Chol. Stoll assigns to them a considerable area in northern Guate- 
mala in the form of a belt across the state between the Chol and Itza areas 
as laid down by him. Sapper gives as the area of his “Maya of San 
Luis”’ (which he identifies as the Mopan) a small belt extending across 
the southern extremity of British Honduras, and westward beyond the 
_ border of Guatemala, including San Luis. Stoll says (2: 94) that the 
Mopanas had on the south the Choles, on the east and north the 
Ttzas, and on the west the Lacandones. As his map is limited to 
Guatemala it does not extend the area into British Honduras. 
ALAGUILAC 
Although this language is now extinct, the evidence presented by 
Doctor Brinton in a paper read before the American Philosophical 
Society, November 4, 1887, proves beyond doubt that it belonged to 
the Nahuatlan family and was closely related to, if not identical 
with, the Pipil dialect spoken in the territory adjoming. According 
to this evidence the area throughout which it was spoken was sub- 
stantially the same as that laid down by Stoll—namely, in the 
eastern part of Guatemala, on the Rio Motagua. It included the 
pueblos San Cristobal Acasaguastlan, Chimalapan, Usumatlan, and 
Tecolutan, and, as Doctor Brinton states, also San Agustin. The 
data thus made known since Stoll’s work was published require a 
slight modification of the boundaries given this tribe by him. Doc- 
tor Brinton says Chorti was spoken in the adjoining area, but Stoll 
surrounds the southern half by the detached Pipil area, and the 
northern half by the Chol area. 
PIPIL 
As is well known, this language belongs to the Nahuatlan stock 
and is closely related to Aztec, being, in fact, but a dialect of that 
language. 
The early habitat of the tribe as determined by Stoll and Sapper 
agreesso closely with that given by Squier (42348) and Juarros (1:11,81), 
and the relation of the tribes as found by Alvarado in 1524, that it is 
necessary to describe here only their situation as set forth by the first 
two authorities. They were located in two separate areas. The 
larger territory lay chiefly along the Pacific coast in southeastern 
Guatemala, from the meridian of Escuintla eastward into Salvador 
to the lower southward stretch of the Lempa river. This terri- 
tory was intercepted, however, by that of the Xinca tribe and by a 
colony of the Lencan stock, being thus divided into two parts, one in 
