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The Chorotega are connected to Meso-American Indians, but some speculation arose on they may originated in the Eastern Woodlands and Gulf Coasts of North America, over 1,000 years ago by migratory sea-faring peoples of the Caribbean islands when they probably left the Florida peninsula to get into the isthmus of Central America. Note the similarity of the words "Chorotega" and the place name of Chiriqui in nearby Panama, and the far-flung Cherokee Indians (whom went by the self-name Chalaqui or Tsalagi) are of Iroquoian, as well Algonkian and Siouan ethnolinguistic stock. The languages of several indigenous peoples from Mexico, Central America and even the Pacific coast of South America are connected with the Penutian language family, whose known historic range was in the West coast of the U.S. or Canada in North America, but Penutian linguistic patterns were discovered in languages of the Mapuche all the way down in Chile. The Chorotegas were likely to been oceanic travelers in the last ice age, whom traveled southward from the California (U.S. and Baja) coasts downward to what it is now Costa Rica, with some settlement in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 15:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
