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were three principal dialects: The Move-Valiente, called also the 
Nortefio by the Spaniards; the Murire-Bukueta, called also the 
Sabanero by the Spaniards; and the Muoi. Lucien Adam, however, 
counts six dialects, which he arranges in two groups, thus: 1, Muoi, 
Murire, and Sabanero; 2, Valiente, Guaymie, and Norteno. 
The latter arrangement appears to be the correct one and that 
which Pinart has in reality followed in his vocabularies, notwith- 
standing his preliminary statement. 
According to Pinart (8: preface), the group occupied at the time 
of the Conquest that part of the Panama district extending on the 
north from Chiriqui lagoon to Chagres river, and on the south, or 
Pacific side, from Chorrera to the Rio Fonseca; the Pearl and other 
islands of the Gulf of Panama, and Cebaco, Coiba, Jicaron, and other 
islands in the vicinity of Chiriqui lagoon. Peralta says in the paper 
heretofore quoted (p. 83) that “‘the Guaymies occupied the coast 
and the interior lands situated between the rivers Guaymi and 
Conception, of Veragua.’’ According to Pinart (3:2) these dialects 
appear to be spoken at present only in the plains and sierras in 
the vicinity of the eastern end of Chiriqui lagoon, in the Valley 
Miranda (or Guaymie), and “en las sierras del mineral de Veraguas.”’ 
He gives, however, at the end of his part 2, a list of the names of 
places, rivers, etc.— 
Pertaining to the dialects of the Guaymie language, in the departments of Panama, 
Colon, Cocle, Veraguas, Los Santos and Chiriqui, and also in the comarcas of Balboa 
and Bocas-del-Toro. 
The above territory extends to the Chagres river. 
Sapper (1) very wisely has attempted to indicate on his map only 
the area of the Guaymie in the group sense. [Even this is not 
marked on the present map, being included in the Doraskean area. 
The linguistic material collected by Pinart has enabled philologists 
to assign these dialects to the Chibchan family with reasonable cer- 
tainty. Adam is here followed in counting six dialects, and Pinart 
in fact gives six in his vocabularies. 
CuNA 
This language, which shows no clear affinity with any other lan- 
guage, in spite of certain leanings toward Chibchan, constitutes 
a stock in itself, to which the name Cunan is applied. Pinart was 
inclined to connect it with the Caribbean group, but this sugges- 
tion has not been accepted by philologists generally. The Cuna 
have been mentioned under various names, as Mandinga, Darien Indi- 
ans, Chucunaque, Cunacuna, Bayano, Tule, Yule, San Blas Indians, 
etc., and the old Spanish name Cueva also refers to them. 
According to Pinart (1: preface) the boundaries of the Cunan 
territory at the time of the Conquest were as follows: On the west a 
