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The Indian grammar begun, or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules . by John Eliot ... Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed by M. Johnson, 1666
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Ta .107
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eliot, John, Apostle to the Indians, 1604-1690.
- Series:
- Old South leaflets. [General series. ; v. 3] no. 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massachusetts language--Grammar.
- Massachusetts language.
- Indians of Massachusetts--Language.
- Local Subjects:
- Indians of Massachusetts--Language.
- Physical Description:
- 16 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston : Directors of the Old South Work, 1896]
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- "The language of which this grammar treats was specifically that of the Massachusetts tribes of Indians, dwelling near the sea-coast of the present state of Massachusetts ... It was spoken ... by the Wampanoags of Plymouth Colony, the Narragansets and Niantics, the islanders of Nope (Martha's Vineyard) the Montauks, etc. ... It has also been called the Nonantum language, but more frequently the Natick tongue ..."--Pilling, Bibl. of the Algonquian lang., p. 172.
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