OP THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 97 



INTRODICTION. 



THE Delaware Indians have no /nor r in their language*. 

 I Ik letters must l>e pronounced as in German or Latin. 

 The language has no resemblance to any of ours; it lias, 

 however, its own fixed rules, to which those must conform 

 wlio will speak intelligibly. Whoever will speak Indian 

 nuM learn to think in Indian. 



This treatise will greath facili'ate those who wish to learn 

 this lansua^e. if they will only impress themselves with the 

 rules, which are neither numerous nor difficult. In propor- 

 tion as the knowledge of them is acquired, a greater plea- 

 sure will be found in this study, and every day new treasures 

 will be discovered; but above all. there must be a desire to 

 learn, without which nothing can be effected. 



JVbte by the Translator. — The DcUwum «li<> inhabited PennaytvuU, irfaOa it mi nodai 



''"' B» edi h dotnin used the - instead »l the ' Thi \ called themselves Renni !<■ napt 



Luthin OateeMmut, OeficeruUpaoJimerican-Virginitke Spraoket. Stockholm, 1999, Thii 



race appears to be extinct. 



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