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quian tribes will be possible when more data of this nature are 

 available. 



PHONETIC CHANGES 



1. n to c. In my Contributions to Algonquian Grammar^ I have 

 shown that in both Fox and Potawatomi n changes to c before an i 

 which is either a new morphological element or the initial sound of such 

 an element. I also raised the question as to whether this change might 

 not occur in other dialects. That it likewise is found in Ojibwa is shown 

 by micin give (thou) me as contrasted with klgammin i will give 

 THEE, both of which are quoted from Dr. Jones' unpublished texts. The 

 last example also shows that the change does not occur before Ojibwa i 

 when this corresponds to Fox e (Fox kimineiffM.., i will give thee). 

 From my Shawnee notes of 1911 it appears that the same or a like phe- 

 nomenon occurs in that language. Thus kaldsiW speak to me (the- 

 oretically kAnocin^ in Fox, supported by kAUOc^ tell it [an.] in Jones' 

 Texts at 298.26; -i/i" [31]; see my 'Contributions,' 1. c); kitesi you told 

 me (theoretically Fox ketec\ ke — * [28]; stem te, -c- as above; supported 

 by Fox kimlc' at J. 240.14 i wish you would give me, ki — ^ [28] as 

 contrasted with kitele i told you (corresponds to Fox ketene, J. 110.5, 

 116.14). It is likely that in both cases the s is a mishearing for c; 

 observe that in Shawnee d corresponds to Fox s, e.g., dogi- bind = 

 Fox sdgi~. 



2. s to c. That s changes to c in Ojibwa under the same conditions 

 as in Fox {Am. Anthropologist, 1. c, p. 471) is clear from wlniciyan thou 

 WILT KILL me as Compared with kiwlnism i will kill thee, and 

 kdnisadwd thou who didst kill them. The citations are both from 

 Jones, 1. c. The change does not take place before Ojibwa i (t) when 

 this corresponds to Fox e, which shows this last is the more original, 

 for which see also the discussion of the change of n to c. 



3. my to m in Ojibwa. In Jones' texts I findnmaa/a'a" i feel sad 

 AT HEART. Contrast this with Fox dmydcitdhdtc^ (in my unpublished 

 texts) HE HAD DOLEFUL FEELINGS IN HIS HEART. The Ojibwa example 

 may furthermore be used to illustrate the change of n to c in that lan- 

 guage: See American Anthropologist, 1. c, p. 471. 



4. Interchange of Fox o and aiv. In paragraph 34 of the Algonquian 

 sketch in the Handbook of American Indian Languages I pointed out 



lAm. Anthropologist, N. S., XV, p. 470 S. 



