The languages that, from their comparative obscurity, claim the attention of the investigator, are those which are other than Maya and other than Mexican Proper.
Of these, the first succeeds the Huasteca of Huastecapan, or the parts about Tampico; which it separates, or helps to separate, from the northern branches of the Maya Proper, being
The Totonaca of Vera Cruz, of which the following is the Paternoster; the German being that of the Mithridates.
Totonaca.
| Unser Vater o | im Himmel steht |
| Quintlatcané | nac tiayan huil; |
| gemacht hoch werde | dein Nahme |
| Tacollalihuacahuanli | ò mi maocxot; |
| komme | dein (reich?) |
| Niquiminanin | ò mintacacchi |
| gethan werde | dein | Wille |
| Tacholahuanla | ò min pahuat |
| wie | wie | im | Himmel |
| Cholei ix cacnitiet | chalchix | nac | tiayan; |
| unser | Brot, |
| O quin | chouhcan lacalliya |