Chapter VIII: THE MOQUELUMNE GROUP.--Hale's vocabulary of the Talatui

belongs to the group for which the name _Moquelumne_ is proposed, a Moquelumne Hill (in Calaveras county) and a Moquelumne River being found within the area over which the languages belonging to it are spoken. Again, the names of the tribes that speak them end largely in-_mne_,--_Chupumne_, &c. As far south as Tuol-_umne_ county the language belongs to this division, as may be seen from the following table; the Talatui being from Hale, the Tuolumne from Schoolcraft; the Tuolumne Indians being on the Tuolumne River, and Cornelius being their great chief, with six subordinates under him, each at the head of a different ranchora containing from fifty to two hundred individuals. Of these six members of what we may call the Cornelian captaincy, five speak the language represented by the vocabulary: viz.

1. The Mumaltachi.

2. The Mullateco.

3. The Apangasi.

4. The Lapappu.

5. The Siyante or Typoxi.

The sixth band is that of the Aplaches (? Apaches), under Hawhaw, residing further in the mountains.

ENGLISH. TUOLUMNE. TALATUI.

_head_ hownah tiket.
_hair_ esok munu.
_ear_ tolko alok.
_eye_ húnteh wilai
_nose_ níto uk (?).
_mouth_ ahwúk hube (?).
_sky_ wutsha witçuk.
_sun_ heamhah hi.
_day_ hemaah hiúmu.
_night_ kowwillah kawil.
_darkness_ pozattah hunaba.
_fire_ wúkah wike.
_water_ kíkah kík.
_stone_ lowwak sawa.

As far west as the sea-coast languages of the Moquelumne group are spoken. Thus--

A short vocabulary of the San Rafael is Moquelumne.

So are the Sonoma dialects, as represented by the Tshokoyem vocabulary and the Chocouyem and Yonkiousme Paternosters.

So is the _Olamentke_ of Kostromitonov in Baer's Beiträge.

So much for the forms of speech to the north of the Gulf of San Francisco. On the south the philology is somewhat more obscure. The Paternosters for the _Mission de Santa Clara_ and the _Vallee de los Tulares_ of Mofras seem to belong to the same language. Then there is, in the same author, one of the _Langue Guiloco de la Mission de San Francisco_. These I make Moquelumne provisionally. I also make a provisional division for a vocabulary called--