D. G. Brinton on Central American Languages. 225 
agrammar of it.f It has even been uncertain whether the 
Cholti was an independent dialect. It is not mentioned at all 
In Ludewig’s “ Literature of American Aboriginal languages,” 
oe Mr. Squier gives the title of Moran’s work from Vasquez 
us,— 
“ Arte de la Lengua Cholti (Chorti ?).”{ 
sive, and eminently deserves publication, together with selec- 
tions trom the vocabulary. I have made a careful copy of it 
ufording some additional illustration of the ‘“ vowel echo,” 
Vecho vocalique of the Maya dialects, to which the same writer 
has called attention as analogous to the law of the harmonic 
Sequence of vowels common in Scythian languages. 
€ remaining manuscripts are in the Cakchiquel dialect, 
at one time and even yet much spoken and studied in Guate- 
a, and hence called Guatemalteca, 
have also noticed the occasional use in these manuscripts of a peculiar 
wy 
Yowel sound represented by an ¢ with a diacri ae 
2 Pi imentel, Cuadro Descriptivo de seers as Indigenas de México, T. Ul, p. 
t Monograph 38. 
iph of Authors, etc., p. 35. rag 
Ode gaa personnel dans les idiomes de la famille Tapachulane-Huastique : 
68. ced et ee 
| Etude comparative sur les langues de la famille Maya- Quiché, Revue Amert- 
ine, Tom. I, 
