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[May 7, 



Sounds of duration : 

 Aspirates Spirants Nasals Trills 



th 



The sound expressed by 1th in adolthtek, adolthe boat I have rendered 

 by 8 1, the palatalized 1, which is produced by holding the tip of the tongue 

 against the alveolar or foremost part of the palate. It appears in many 

 American, but not in Algonkin languages. 



The sound dr, tr in adamadret, adamatret gun, drona hair, edru otter 

 and other terms is probably a peculiar sound, and not a mere combination 

 of d(t) with r. 



The articulation dth seems distinct from the aspirate th of the English 

 language ; it occurs in dthoonanyen hatchet, dthoonut ten, used in form- 

 ing the decade in the terms for twenty, thirty, etc. (cf. theant and shansee 

 ten). Perhaps it is th pronounced with an explosive effort of the vocal 

 organ. 



X is rendered in our lists by gh and sometimes by ch, as in yaseech one, 

 drone-ooch hairs, maduch to-morrow. 



ts, ds are unfrequent or do not occur at all. 



sch in deschudodoick to Moid and other terms is probably our sk. 



/ does not occur in Beothuk, but is found in Micmac vocabularies ; per- 

 haps it would be better to have rendered there that sound by v'h, w'h and 

 not by /, for other Algonkin dialects show no trace of it. 



I is unfrequent and found, as an initial sound, only in the term lathun 

 trap. Whether r is our rolling r or not is difficult to determine. 



th often figures as a terminal, but more frequently as an initial and 

 medial sound. 



Consonants are frequently found geminated in our lists, but this is 

 chiefly due to the graphic method of English writers, who habitually 

 geminate them to show that the preceding vowel is short in quantity : cf. 

 dattomeish, haddabothic, immamooset, massooch. 



The language exhibits the peculiarity not unfrequently observed through- 

 out America, that final syllables generally end in consonants and the pre- 

 ceding syllables in vowels. Accumulations of consonants occur, but are 

 not frequent; e.g. carmtack lo speak, Mamjaesdoo, nom. pr. The majority 

 of all syllables not final consists of a consonant followed by a vowel, or 

 diphthong. 



Too little information is on hand to establish any general rules for the 

 accentuation. None of the accented words are oxytonized, but several 

 have the antepenult emphasized : bashedtheek, askwoging, dosomite ; 

 the term ejabathook has the accent still further removed from the final 



