APÉNDICE D 
CHUNUPI OR SUIIIN 
INTRODUCTION 
The Chunupi or Suhin language runs on the broad lines of the Choroti 
and Vejoz both lexically and pronominally. In some of the details 
there are slight differences, which as far as I am able will be indicated 
in the following notes. 
1. The ñame Suhin is given by the Lengua-Mascoy to the nation 
living on their western frontiers, and in the form Kás-Suhin-eha the 
eastern section of the Chunupi-Suhin people speak of themselves. 
On the river Pilcomayo they cali themselves Athluthlai and are known 
to the white settlers of the lower Pilcomayo as Chunupi, a ñame to be 
found in the okl records and maps, and which is variously pronounced 
as Chonn-pe or Sona-pe, evidently a word of Mataco origin, and mean- 
ing Ovejeros, or the “ Sheep possessing peoples,” from Sona, Tsonna 
or Chonna (the little forest deer from which the sheep takes its ñame) 
and Pe (possess). 
The Vejoz who speak Spanish frequently refer to the friendly 
interior tribes as Ovejeros and to the inimical Chamacoco as Perros 
(dogs). The ñames Ithlatese, Itanlmwas and Chane-ájthle are also 
given by the Vejoz to the Chunupi, while the Choroti cali them Athle. 
Chañe means “ man ” or “ comrade,” and as a title belonged to the 
Chañe or Guana living to the north of the present Suhin and Lengua- 
Mascoy. Ajthle is but another form of Athle of the Choroti, which in 
turn closely resembles the ñame the Chunupi use of themselves 
Athlu-thlai. It is quite possible that the word Athle may be the 
cquivaleut of the Quechua allí (good), i he Quechua ll has mauy cqua- 
tions of thl in the Chaco tongues, also sh, and the word for “ good ” in 
Choroti is esh or es ; Vejoz and Suhin, is ; Towothli, Tlilawis. Strange 
to say the Suhin give to the Lengua-Mascoy the ñame of Thlai-yis 
or “ comrades,” but they are called Eslcdno by the Pilcomayo Suhin. 
“ Good comrades ” is by no means an uncommon general title among 
Indians. 
The Chunupi-Suhin extern! from the borders of the Lengua- 
