THEIR LANGUAGES. 269 



ing nims would seem to indicate ; but they 

 are now reduced to about twentj', which are 

 scattered in various parts of the territory. 



There are but three or four different lan- 

 guages spoken among them, and these, indeed, 

 may be distantly alUed to each other. Those of 

 Taos, Picuris, Isleta, and perhaps some others, 

 speak what has been called the Piro lan- 

 guage. A large portion of the others, viz., 

 tliose of San Juan, Santa Clara, Nambe, Po- 

 juaque, Teziique, and some others, speak Te- 

 gua, having all been originally known by this 

 general name; and those of Cochiti, Santo 

 Domingo, San Felipe, and perhaps Sandia, 

 speak the same tongue, though they seem for- 

 merly to have been distinguished as Quercs. 

 The numerous tribes that inhabited the high- 

 lands between Rio del Norte and Pecos, as 

 those of Pecos, Cienega, Gahsteo, etc., were 

 known anciently as Tagnos, but these are 

 now all extinct ; yet their language is said to 

 be spoken by those of Jemez and others of 

 tliat section. Those further to the westward* 



• Of these, the Pueblo of Zuni has been celebrated for honesty 

 and hospitality. The inhabitants mostly profess the CathoLc faith, 

 tut have now no curate. They cultivate the soil, manufacture, 



considerable mianlities of stock. Their village ia 



possess 



waters 



uver lov mues west 01 the Kio del i\one, on me ^iueisui uic 

 Colorado of the West, and is believed to contain between 1 000 and 



1 500 souls. The 



leagu 



^tiiiuwieagea t&e government and rengion ui uie o^Jcuuaiua, um. 

 have long since rejected both, and live in a state of independence 

 and paganism. Their dwellings, however, like those of Zuni, are 

 amilar to those of the interior Pueblos, and they are. equally in- 

 dustrious and agricultural, and still more ingenious in their manu- 

 facturing. The language of the Moquis or Moquinos is said to 

 <liffer but little from that of the Navajoes. 



