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Julian Granberry

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Description:Mohegan, a dialect of the Mohegan-Pequot language of Southern New England, was one of the major Algonquian languages of Connecticut, spoken from the Connecticut River in the west to the Thames River in the east and from central Connecticut south to Long Island Sound from at least the 13th century through the 1800s. Its last speaker, Mrs. Fidelia A.H. Fielding, died in 1908. From detailed professional phonetic recordings of lengthy texts in Mrs. Fielding's speech we have adequate data to effect a reconstruction of the language as it was spoken in the early 1900s.The present volume gives the reader an account of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of the Mohegan language, as well as a summary of the position and development of Mohegan and the other Mohegan-Pequot dialects (Pequot, Shinnecock, and Montauk) within the Eastern Branch of the Algonquian language family. Lexical data and sample texts are provided.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Mohegan: The Dialect of Jits Bodunaxa. To get started finding Modern Mohegan: The Dialect of Jits Bodunaxa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 67

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: LINCOM

Release: 2003

ISBN: 3895862479

Description: Mohegan, a dialect of the Mohegan-Pequot language of Southern New England, was one of the major Algonquian languages of Connecticut, spoken from the Connecticut River in the west to the Thames River in the east and from central Connecticut south to Long Island Sound from at least the 13th century through the 1800s. Its last speaker, Mrs. Fidelia A.H. Fielding, died in 1908. From detailed professional phonetic recordings of lengthy texts in Mrs. Fielding's speech we have adequate data to effect a reconstruction of the language as it was spoken in the early 1900s.The present volume gives the reader an account of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of the Mohegan language, as well as a summary of the position and development of Mohegan and the other Mohegan-Pequot dialects (Pequot, Shinnecock, and Montauk) within the Eastern Branch of the Algonquian language family. Lexical data and sample texts are provided.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Modern Mohegan: The Dialect of Jits Bodunaxa. To get started finding Modern Mohegan: The Dialect of Jits Bodunaxa, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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