They are in nowise akin to the Maya stock, although they are so classed in Mr.H.H.

Bancroft's excellent work.[1] They have, however, a distinct relationship with the Zoques, about thirty per cent of the words in the two languages being similar.[2] The Zoques, whose mythology we unfortunately know little or nothing about, adjoined the Tzendals, and were in constant intercourse with them.
[Footnote 1: "Mijes, Maya nation," _The Native Races of the Pacific States_, Vol.

v, p.

712.] [Footnote 2: _Apuntes sobre la Lengua Mije_, por C.H.Berendt, M.D., MS., in my hands.

The comparison is made of 158 words in the two languages, of which 44 have marked affinity, besides the numerals, eight out of ten of which are the same.