MICHELSON] ALGONQUIAN LINGUISTIC GROUPS 257 
Phonetically. Shawnee differs somewhat from Fox. The sibilant 
is retained in the cluster sp, which appears as ‘p in Fox though 
retained in Ojibwa (but not in Peoria): spemegi ON HIGH, Fox a‘ pemegi 
(see the discussion of Cree and Ojibwa, pp. 238, 261). The combina- 
tion -w% is lost after 7 and @, as in Ojibwa: Shawnee hileni Man, 
Fox ineniwt; Shawnee hugimda cuter, Fox ugimaw*.! It may be noted 
that -w® is lost after e under unknown conditions when corresponding 
to Fox: pemie (Fox pemusiw%) HE WALKED ON, piew% (Fox (pydw%) 
HE CAME. The combination -wa- is lost medially under unknown con- 
ditions: pyégi THEY WENT (Fox pydwagi) as contrasted with hiwaki 
(Gatschet, confusion of surd and sonant; Fox hiwagi) THEY SAID. The 
sound s of Fox is replaced by the interdental surd spirant and the pre- 
ceding vowel is ordinarily syncopated: ndéa My FATHER (Fox nosa), 
kokombena ovr (incl.) GRANDAOTHER (Fox kd'komesendna), "deba 
MY ELDER BROTHER (Fox nesesa). Corresponding to Fox, Ojibwa, 
Menominee, etc., n, Shawnee has / and n under unknown conditions, 
agreeing, however, with Peoria, Delaware, and (partially) Eastern 
Algonquian in this use. 
To sum up, we may say that while Shawnee has certain features 
of its own, it stands nearest to Fox, and next to Eastern Algonquian; 
in fact it stands nearly halfway between the two. It will be seen 
that Ojibwa shares but these persons of the independent mode, 
namely, YE—THEM an., THEY an.—you (pl.), which are not shared 
by Passamaquoddy. (No account is taken of the agreements 
in the inanimate objective forms, as we have no correspondents 
available in Passamaquoddy by which to test them.) On the other 
hand, Passamaguoddy shares the following forms with Shawnee 
which are not shared by Ojibwa: 1—yov (pl.), YE intrans., YE—ME; 
THEY an.—HIM. The forms for HE—Uvs (excl. and incl.) presumably 
are phonetic correspondents; those for HE—THEM an. and THEY 
an.—THEM an. probably are equivalents. The Passamaquoddy 
forms for we (excl. and inel., intrans.), WE (execl.)—THEE, YOU; 
THOU—Us (exel.); yE—Uws (excl.), coinciding phonetically with the 
respective Fox forms, are closely similar to the corresponding Shawnee 
forms. Accordingly, it may be that many of the apparent points of 
contact with Ojibwa are due merely to the latter having certain points 
in common with Eastern Algonquian and Cree (this last has reference 
particularly to the inanimate objective forms above noted). The 
fact that Ojibwa in the independent mode shares only the ter- 
minations for HE—wus (excl. and inel.), and THEY an.—ws (excl. 
and inel.), with Fox as opposed to Passamaquoddy, while the latter 
shares numerous terminations with Fox as opposed to Ojibwa, and at 
1 It is possible that the last change may account for the differences in certain persons of the independent 
mode in Fox on the one hand and in Ojibwa and Shawnee on the other; but it is also possible to consider 
the terminations as differing in morphologic structure. The same point occurs in certain other cases. 
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