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is authenticated by M. Paul Picard TsaSenholii, sou of the late Hurou chief, Tahoureuché, 

 and is accompanied by the following memorandum, from the pen of the Reverend Father, 

 by whom it has been transcribed for me: "Je soussigné certifie que la langue Huronne 

 n'a pas changée. C'est la même langue qui était parlée en 10*73, nous n'avons pas d'autre 

 Pater que cekii, qui a été écrit par le Révérend père Jésuite Chaiimonot, qui résidait à 

 l'ancienne Lorette avec le Révérend père Jésuite Pierre Martin BouA^art, Procureur des 

 Missions. Joseph Gonzagtje Vincent HodelonroSannen." ' A comparison of this 

 specimen of the Huron language, derived from one of the Jesuit missionary Fathers of the 

 seventeenth century, with the subsequent Mohawk and Iroquois Aversions of the Lord's 

 Prayer, wherever the same terms are used, serves to illustrate some of the modifications 

 that the language has undergone in the course of time and from the dispersion of the 

 race. This is seen in siich words as the Huron aronhia,e, which in the Iroquois becomes 

 karonhiake, and in the Mohawk karonhyakonh. The old form hetsUron is similarly changed 

 to tesiteron in the Iroquois, and to teghskleronh in the Mohawk ; and so in other instances. 

 Aiesachiendaensken, as here used, means strictly " mayst thou have an exalted," or 

 " honoured, name " It is the same word as the Iroquois aiesasennaien. The termination 

 sken is a sign of the optative mood in the Huron. AiaSakSastasken appears to mean " may we 

 be made happy, "or " blessed ; " and, as such, is a very mundane rendering of " thy kingdom 

 come ; " but the whole version partakes of the character of a paraphrase. Nondende is 

 made up of we, " the," ende, " earth," and the locative suffix /«fe. Ta%i;nn.onlasken and tnSannont 

 are from annonte?i, " to give." As to the translation of the simx^le petition for daily bread, 

 it seems as though two attempts at rendering it into Hurou had been made ; and both of 

 them retained, with the adverb Wondi, "also," to indicate the second form as a another 

 version of the first. But there is reason to suspect that the text has suffered, probably in 

 repeated transcription. Some of the words can only be conjecturally rendered, in their 

 uncertain orthogTaphy. The comma in the body of a word represents the sound of y, when 

 it stands for a primitive k which has been lost by phonetic decay ; or is slurred over in 

 indistinct utterance. Thus ta,^a,arennien is in its primitive form takSakSkarennien. 



THE LORD'S PRAYER IN HURON. 



Sk8a isten do, aronhia,e hetsitron aiesacliiendaensken aia8ak8a.staskeii 



Our father in the heaven thou art sitting, or abidiny, may thy name be exalted, may we be made happy. 



aronhia,e aiese-ndaieratasken nondende ia,8es Cosken haiaSenk etiesendaierati. 



in heaven thou mayst have they will, on the earth in like m/mncr may it happen tluit thou hast thy will. 



TaSannontasken exentate ondaie d'oraSenstakSi n'onSennonkSat taSannont iSondi 



mayst thou give from time to lime that which is needful for our life ; give us also 



d'ateSentate d'aionnhekSi. Sasandi,onrhenk non8ariSadera,i ffoskenaiaSen n'enditson8adi,onrliens 



for the day that which makes to live. Pardon vs our wrong-doings as ire pardon 



n'onxhiatolati ennonchien eon,8asichen nia de,ari8aderai' a8eti ta,8a,arennien d'okaot. 

 those u'ho offend us. let not overcome us the sin all turn from us the evil. 



In the year 1880, the Upper Canada Bible Society undertook the publication of the 

 four gospels "in the Irocj^uois language." In the report of the Society for that year it is 



' It is thus described : " Oraison Dominicale extraite d'un manuscrit très-ancien attribué au Révérend Père 

 Cliaumonot, Jésuite, qui était au Village de L'ancienne Lorette avec les Hurons en l'année 1673." My obligations 

 are due to J. M. LeMoine, Esq., for kiud services in aiding me to procure this co^jy. 



