Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

by R. G. Latham

From these Yuma Indians I take the name for the group now under notice. It contains, besides the Yuma Proper, the Dieguno of San Diego and the Coco-maricopa.

The Coco-maricopa Indians are joint-occupants of certain villages on the Gila; the population with which they are associated being Pima. Alike in other respects, the Pima and Coco-maricopa Indians differ in language, as may be seen from the following table, confirmatory of the testimony of numerous trustworthy authorities to the same effect.

English.	Pima.		Cuchan.	Cocomaricopa.			Dieguno.
man	huth		epatsh	apatch		{	àycutcht.
							epatch.
woman	hahri		sinyak	seniact			sun.
Indian	huup		metepaie	——			——
head	mouk	{	ecoutsucherowo	}	——		estar.
			and
			umwelthoocouo
hair	ptmuk		eetche	——			hiletar.
ear	ptnahauk		smythl	——			——
nose	tahnk		——	——			hu.
mouth	chinits		——	——			ah.
tongue	neuen		epulche	——			——
tooth	ptahan		aredoche	——			——
beard	chinyo		yahboineh	——			——
hand	mahahtk		eesalche	issalis			selh.
foot	tetaght		emetchslipaslapya	ametche			hamulyay.
sky	ptchuwik		amma	——			——
sun	tahs		nyatch	——			——
moon	mahsa		huthlya	——			——
star	uon		klupwalaie	——			——
snow	chiah		halup	——			——
fire	tahi		aawoh	house			——
water	suntik		aha	haache			kha.
I	ahan		nyat	——			nyah.
he	yeutah		habritzk	——			——
one	yumako		sin	sandek			hina.
two	kuak		havick	haveka			hawue.
three	vaik		hamuk	hamoka			hamuk.
four	kiik		chapop	champapa			chapop.
five	puitas		serap	sarap			suap.

San Diego lies in 32-1/2° north latitude, a point at which the philology diverges—in one direction into Old California, in another into Sonora. I first follow it in the direction of

Old California.

San Diego, as has just been stated, lies in 32-1/2° north latitude. Now it is stated in the Mithridates that the most northern of the Proper Old Californian tongues, the Cochimi, is spoken as far north as 33°. If so, the Dieguno may be Old Californian as well as New; which I think it is; believing, at the same time, that Cochimi and Cuchan are the same words. Again, in the following Paternoster the word for sky = ammai in the Cuchan vocabulary.

Cochimi of San Xavier.

	father	sky
Pennayu	make¸nambà yaa	ambayujui miyà mo;

	name	men	confess	and	love	all
Buhu	mombojua	tamma	gkomendà	hi	nogodoño	demuejueg gkajim;

	and	sky	earth	favour
Pennayùla bogodoño gkajim, gui	hi	ambayujup maba yaa	ke¸amete	decuinyi mo puegiñ;