406 WESTERN LANGUAGES CLASSIFIED. 



The forty vocabularies printed in this volume belong to seven linguistic 

 stocks, and subdivide themselves as follows : 



I. Tinne stock : four vocabularies, Nos. 1-4. 

 II. Numa stock : eighteen vocabularies, Nos. 5-22. 

 III. Yuma stock : seven vocabularies, Nos. 23-29. 

 IV. Stock of Bio Grande Pueblos: six vocabularies, Nos. 30-35. 

 V. Stock of Kera Pueblos : three vocabularies, Nos. 36-38. 

 VI. Wintun stock : one vocabulary, No. 39. 

 VII. Santa Barbara stock : one vocabulary, No. 40. 



AREAS AND DIALECTS OF THE SEVEN LINGUISTIC STOCKS. 



THE TINNE STOCK. 



The Tinne family of languages, or as it was formerly called, the Atha- 

 paskan, extends over one of the widest areas known to belong to any of 

 the American stocks. The hunting occupation and erratic habits of the 

 Tinne* tribes confined them to inland countries, and nowhere do we see 

 them touch the sea coast, except at the outlet of Atna or Copper River and 

 around Cook's Inlet, Alaska. The ancient and principal habitat of the 

 Tinne" race, which we may call a truly northern race, was the western part 

 of British America and Alaska's interior. The tribes found to reside or 

 rove within the boundaries of the United States or Mexico must have 

 detached themselves, in prehistoric epochs, from the main stock inhabiting 

 the ridges of the Rocky Mountains north or south of the Polar Circle, and 

 the endless rolling plains north of Saskatchewan River. We cannot here 

 undertake to enumerate all the northern Tinne* tribes, nor those which have 

 migrated to the Pacific coast between Puget Sound and Mad River in 

 Northern California, but we subjoin a list of the more important Tinne tribes 

 now wandering through or settled in the south, as having special reference 

 to the vocabularies given below. 



This southern branch of the Tinne* race detached itself in early ages 

 from the Chipewayans or from such other tribe in their vicinity, to which 



