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Guatemala and the other and chief portion in Salvador. Sapper also 
represents a narrow extension of the Pokomam territory into the 
western section. The other division was located along the upper 
Motagua river in eastern Guatemala between the Chol and Pokomam 
areas. As stated above, the Alaguilac language, spoken throughout 
a small adjoining area, was probably identical with the Pipil. 
Although on the accompanying map Santa Lucia Cozumalhuapa is 
included in the Cakchikel area, the writer is inclined to ascribe the 
sculptures at this place to the Pipil tribe, or at least to the Nahuatlan 
stock. 
XINCA 
(Synonym: Jinca) 
This language, which, with its dialects, appears to form an inde- 
pendent stock, here named Xincan, was spoken throughout an area 
of limited extent along the Pacific coast, in the extreme southeastern 
part of Guatemala, extending from the Rio Michatoyat eastward to the 
boundary of the republic. It embraces three closely allied dialects, 
which it is deemed unnecessary to mark on the map, to wit, Sina- 
cantan, Jupiltepeque, and Jutiapa, spoken, respectively, in the 
pueblos of the same names. Brief vocabularies of the three are given 
by Brinton (2). 
LENCA 
This language, which forms a distinct stock—the Lencan— 
seems to be known in some four or five closely allied dialects, the 
term Lenca not being applied to any one dialect, but comprehending 
all. From Squier’s investigations and other data it appears that 
the Indians speaking this languege formerly occupied a large area 
in central and western Honduras, extending to the Pacific through 
that part of Salvador lying between Lempa river and the Bay 
of Fonseca. The small district in southeastern Guatemala along 
the western bank of the lower Rio de la Paz, marked by Stoll (2) 
on his map as Pupuluca, from data furnished by Juarros, must be 
Lencan territory. There can be but little doubt that the people 
occupying this area and speaking the so-called Pupuluca dialect 
were closely related to or identical with the Lenca and constituted 
a colony of that tribe. This is clearly to be inferred from the fact 
that they were related to and spoke a language similar to that of 
the people of eastern Salvador, who were certainly Lenca. It is 
unnecessary to enter here into a further discussion of the varied 
use of the terms Popoloca and Pupuluca. In his List of Families 
and Dialects the writer has designated the Mayan Pupuluca 
(spoken near Antigua, Guatemala) as Pupuluca (a), and the Lencan 
Pupuluca (spoken along the Rio de la Paz) as Pupuluca (b). The 
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