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kin form in the subjunctive mode. It should be noticed that Mic- 
mac partially shares the feature of the Peoria conjunctive. In the 
other forms of the conjunctive Peoria agrees with Fox (Shawnee 
nearly), Algonkin, Cree, and Miemac (treating conjunctive and sub- 
junctive as interchangeable) in the terminations for wE (excl.)— 
THEE, YOU; HE—US (excl.); (with Natick also in we (excl.)—THER, 
You); with Ojibwa, Algonkin, and Cree in the form for r—you (pl.). 
The other forms call for no comment. 
From its phonetics Peoria, as said above, seems to resemble Fox 
closely in some particulars. But its more northern relationships are 
shown by the fact that the nominative plural of the inanimate noun 
ends ina, agreeing absolutely with Cree, and also by the fact that it 
shares with Cree and Montagnais a set of terminations that correspond 
to the Fox interrogative conjunctiveand subjunctive, but lack the final 
syllable nz, whereas Ojibwa and Algonkin have the n even if the final 
vowel may be lost. 
In closing the discussion of Peoria it should be mentioned that 
this language, together with Fox, Sauk, Kickapoo, and Shawnee, are 
the only Algonquian languages in which every animate noun and 
inanimate noun are known positively to end in the nominative singu- 
lar in a and 7, respectively (excluding cases in which wa is lost pho- 
netically in Shawnee). It is possible that others also may share this 
feature. Menominee and Ojibwa should be especially investigated 
with a view to securing additional information on this point.? 
Natick 
That Natick belongs to the Central subdivision and not to the East- 
ern subdivision of the Eastern-Central major division of Algonquian 
languages is patent from the personal terminations of the verb in the 
present tense (affirmative form) of the indicative and suppositive 
(subjunctive) modes. Compare the following tables, extracted from 
Eliot :* 
| j= MNT]: fl 
I weexel. | we incl. thou ye he they an. 
—— | a a 
Intrans.. . | 7- | n—mun | k- k—mwa | -u -wog 
z | | 
af 8 = | — 
| | 
Wee eet eee = k—eh | k—imwoo n—k n—kquog 
USOXCh ive i = | k—imun | k—imun | n—kgunnonog 
us incl... . — | _ ; o— — _— k—kqun 
| | 
thee... k—sh | k—numun } k—k k—kquog 
Yours) 75 k—numww | k—numun | -- k—ko k—kamoog 
himersey y- n—{[?] | n—oun | | R17] k—au -uh -ouh 
‘ | 
theman. . n—6og n—6unonog | | k—eog k—og -uh -ouh 
| | , 
4 | -umun 
it, theminan.(?)) n—umun | n—umumun k—umun | k—umumwo \umirog 
| - U 
| 
1 Though thé writer worked with the Mississippi band of Ojibwa (living at White Earth, Minn.) 
only a short time, he was able to determine the fact that in the independent mode the termination for 
THOU—ME in the same mode has a final whispered -i. 
2In Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d ser., 1x, Boston, 1832. 
8 Taken from forms in J. H. Trumbull’s Natick Dictionary (Bull. 25, Bur. Amer. Ethnol.). 
