The Cora and Tarahumara have each been recognized as presenting signs of philological affinity with the Astek of Mexico.
PIRINDA.
TARASCA.
Localities.—Mechoacan.
TOTONACA.
Locality.—Parts about the present city of Vera Cruz.
Although lying nearly within the same latitude as Mexico, the Totonaca area is that of the low coast, rather than of the lofty table-land, consequently it is part of the Sierra Calida, with a tropical climate, rather than of the Sierra Templada or Fria, where the elevation of the Anahuac mountain-range effects a change in the physical conditions within the same latitude, which has doubtless been a considerable ethnological influence.
The Huasteca, spoken between the Totonaca area and the Texian frontier, in the parts about the present town of Tampico, has yet to be noticed. It is, however, a language whereof the geographical and ethnological positions are at variance; its affinities of the latter kind being with a language spoken far south of it, and separated from it by the Totonaca area.
Is the preceding list exhaustive, i.e. for the parts between Mexico Proper and California, for Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Cohuahuila, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, and Durango? I am not able to say. The following may be, a. the names of mere dialects; b. of separate substantive languages; c. or, finally, synonyms for some tongue already noticed.