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Cabecar, Estrella, Terraba, Tirribi, and Tucurric; some others are 
mentioned which are now extinct. This course has been adopted 
for present purposes, for the reason that, while it is possible to out- 
line with approximate correctness the territory of the group, the data 
do not justify the attempt to mark the areas of the separate dialects. 
It is necessary to state here that on the present map the south- 
eastern boundary of Costa Rica, that between this republic and 
Panama, is not as given on most maps, but as defined by the Presi- 
dent of France, who was appointed arbiter by the two republics of 
the dispute concerning this boundary. By this decision a consider- 
able strip of southeastern Costa Rica was awarded to Colombia. As 
will be seen, part of the Talamancan territory falls within this strip. 
It should be stated further that Talamanca is here used as a generic 
term for the group and not given to any one dialect.’ The name has 
been very loosely applied; for instance Fernandez (1: 617) says the 
“naciones”’ of the Talamanca are Cabecar, Viceite, Terraba, Toxare, 
Changuene, Zegua, Torasque, and Guaymie, thus including tribes of 
two different stocks—Chibchan and Nahuatlan (Zegua). It is some- 
what strange that a citizen of the country should have made this 
mistake in 1889, especially as Dr. Max Uhle in 1888 (470) gave 
correctly, so far as his reference extends, the Bribri, Cabecar, Estrella, 
Tiribi, and Tucurrique. Moreover, B. A. Thiel in his Apuntos Lexi- 
cograficos de las Lenguas, to which Fernandez refers, gives as the 
dialects of the Talamanca or Viceite, Bribri, Cabecar, Estrella, and 
Chirripo. He mentions Boruca and Terraba separately. Chirripo is 
considered by some authorities merely a subdialect of Cabecar; by 
others, Tariaca under another name, spoken by the people of a 
particular village dalled Chirripo and the immediately surrounding 
region. Sapper (1: 31) says: 
The language of Tucurrique or Tucurriqui, a village situated on the banks of the 
Rio Reventazon differs only in a few non-essential dialectic details from the language 
of the Indians living on the banks of the Rio Chirripo, Rio Estrella, Coen and the upper 
Teliri, which Pittier names Cabecara after their chief dwelling place, 8. José Cabecar. 
An examination of the vocabularies given by Thiel tends to confirm 
this conclusion. Pittier and Gagini (7) consider three of these dia- 
lects the principal ones—Bribri, to which are referred Cabecar, Chir- 
ripo, Estrella and Tucurric; Terraba, which is considered identical 
with Tirribi; and Boruca, which forms the third division. 
According to Peralta’s paper quoted above (p. 83), the south- 
eastern boundary of the Guetare territory, where it joined the Tala- 
mancan area, extended from the mouth of the Rio Matina westward 
to Terrialba on the north line of Cartago district. In his map (Mit- 
teilungen, 1901) Sapper locates a small colony of Cabecar in the 
northern part of this district, on the extreme headwaters of the Re- 
ventazon river. From this it appears that the northern boundary 
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