speck) 



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Algonkian, or Po\vhtit;in, ia the latter making due allowances, of 

 course, for the poor quality of the material that is at this time 

 available. 



Mohegan-Pequot is thus less vocalic than its neighbor dialects. 

 In fact it seems less so than any others in the eastern area south of the 

 St. Lawrence. Among consonantic peculiarities our material shows 

 a fondness for clusters composed of two members, often a stop plus 

 sibilant, TiC, Tcs, t's, tc (rarely), 6c, pc, lie, ntc, nc, mc, ms; combinations 

 so frequent as to give a rather distinctive acoustic coloring to the 

 dialect. Again, cic, sic, cs, pic, tp, dkw, t'l-, sic, cb, mb, showing the 

 reverse order of spirant^stop and stop plus stop, are abundantly 

 represented. 



Nasalization of vowels is absent, although it is attributed to the 

 Massachusetts by Eliot. (Cf. Ind. Grammar begun, 1666. Old 

 South Leaflets no. 52, p. 4.) 



