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330 



Mi\ Fickering on the Orthography of the 







be advautageoiisly 



d, instead of 



the single u, at the beginning of certain syllables which we 

 should otherwise av rite with oo : for, if the combination oo should 



happen to precede or follow 

 or owj it makes a very awk 



f 



O'OO (for wo 

 orthography ; 



d if the 00 should precede or follow another comhination of the 



thus OO'OO (for wuj the inconvenience is still more 



kind 



palpable. Our venerable Elioty whose memory will ever b 

 revered by scholars as well as by the friends of religion, both i 



his Indian Gramma 



d 



Translat 



B 



used a 



icter composed of two o 's closely united thus ( od) resembling 

 gure 8 laid horizontally. This character answers extremely 



well ; but as the simpl 



ways supply 



and as both of these are familiar to the diffe 



nations of 



Eurooe, I 



thought we 



disp 



with the character 



devised by Eliot. The 



m 



denote this sound by the Greek character a : and this 



IS accordingly used throughout Father Male's MS. Diction 



of the :N'orridgwock, or rather Abnaki, language 

 in the Library of our University in Cambridg 



now preserved 



B 



for the 



before mentioned. I think that neither th 



nor El 



Vi 



be found necessary 



-r 



Such, I have observed, should be the lasls of 

 lography, wVny modifications of these 



Ind 



; 



4 



these fundamental sounds 

 which may be discovered in the different Indian languages, may 

 be indicated by some diacritical marks placed above or below tlie 



ployed to d 



d 



fundamental or principal 



• S 



For this purpose I should choose, if practicable, to adopt 

 other marks than the common signs of accent and quantity 



ee an account of this valuable MS. in the Appendix to the present paper, 



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ft 



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