THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 75 
have been spoken by a small colony in Salvador about Izalco. It 
is probably merely a subdialect of or pure Pipil, as the latter is, or 
was, the language common to that section. It has not been noted 
on the accompanying map. 
JICAQUE 
(Synonym: Xicaque) 
This language, which, so far as known at present, was that of an 
independent stock here named Jicaquean, is, or was, spoken by a 
tribe of Indians living in northern Honduras. According to Squier 
(4:378) their territory extended from the Rio Ulva on the west to the 
Rio Negro (or Black river, also called Rio Tinto) on the east, though 
on his map they are placed between the Ulva and Roman rivers. 
How far back into the interior their district stretched is not stated, 
but it is known that it did not include Comayagua. Although 
Membrefio (195) has a note on this tribe, he fails to indicate the 
locality further than by presenting the vocabularies of two dialects 
of the language—‘Jicaque of Yoro”’ and ‘“‘Jicaque of Palmar.” He 
speaks of the latter as “cerca de San Pedro” (195); the other pre- 
sumably was spoken in the district of Yoro, as the vocabulary given 
appears to have been obtained by an official of that district. The 
difference between these two dialects as shown by the vocabularies 
is as great, if not greater, than that between the Maya proper and 
the Cakchikel. The area for this tribe marked on the accompanying 
map is determined according to the writer’s best judgment from the 
brief data obtainable. 
PAYA 
Like the preceding language, Paya forms a distinct stock which, 
following the rule established by Maj. J. W. Powell, has been named 
the Payan. Squier says (4:378), ‘The Xicaques, greatly reduced, 
exist in the district lying between the Rio Ulua and Rio Tinto, 
and the Payas in the triangle between the Tinto, the sea, and the 
Rio Wanks, or Segovia.’”’ On his map, however, he extends them 
westward to the River Roman (or Aguan). Membrefio (195) states 
that the principal center of the Paya is the pueblo of Culmi, or Dulce 
Nombre, slightly south of the center of the area marked on the ac- 
companying map. This area and that of the Jicaque are supposed to 
represent the territory of these two tribes before the incoming of the 
Carib, now occupying the coast. Bell (258) says they inhabit the 
headwaters of the Black and Patook rivers. Squier expresses the 
opinion that the territory of the Lenca extended to the north coast, 
but it must be remembered that he included the Jicaque in the 
Lencan group. Whether the Chol territory extended eastward to the 
Rio Ulua is somewhat doubtful; Sapper does not place it so far. 
