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shows it in t, d, and the affricatives. Wawenock, like St. Francis 

 Abenaki, has the final syllable stress. Like St. Francis it also lacks 

 the distinct aspiration following vowels preceding stops and affri- 

 catives so noticeable in Penobscot. Syntactically Wawenock uses 

 more independent word forms than Penobscot but it is not quite 

 so analytic as the St. Francis dialect. In vocabulary Wawenock 

 employs some nouns and verbs which are found in Penobscot 

 and not in St. Francis and vice versa — perhaps more of the former. 

 Modal and adverbial forms are more like those of St. Francis. 

 There is nothing in grammar, so far as I could ascertain, that is 

 really distinct from both the two related dialects; consequently 

 the intermediate position of the dialect seems well established. 

 Its intermediate complexion has led to an anomalous classification 

 among the Indians themselves. The Penobscot associate Wawe- 

 nock with the St. Francis dialect, while the latter reciprocate by 

 classing it with Penobscot. As a final consideration it might be added 

 that intercourse with the St. Francis people has been too irregular to 

 have influenced the idiom in recent years, hence the intermediary 

 characteristics of the dialect seem genuine properties, not of a kind 

 acquired since the migration of the tribe from its old home in Maine. 



