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a language spoken in such an environment... The words swdx 
(=Del. gohan, but Natick 66; Peq. nur—yes, so Stiles? in his 
vocabulary) and Spuiti ‘anus ’’==Del. sapurti, would, alone be 
sufficient proof of the Lenapian character of the Skaghticoke idiom. 
The Skaghticoke actually preserves the jesqunnilc so rare in 
modern Algic, in the words ritig ‘crushed corn”? and skikaris 
‘snake.’ This is, so far as I am aware, the only modern: instance. 
of ~ in Algic, except. in one dialect of the northern Cree. The x 
undoubtedly existed in Lenape.at the time of the Old Swedish 
occupation of New Jersey and Pennsylvania (see Brinton, Zhe 
Lenape and their Legends, p. 96 and, below, s. v. ritig). As was 
the case among the Abenakis, this » changed to /at a very early 
date. In Rasles’ dictionary of the ancient Abenaki, it is the regu- 
lar rule to find 7 for modern /, but no living Abenaki pronounces 7 
in the modern language. A most interesting parallel case is found 
in the Iroquois idiom spoken at the St. Regis Falls Reservation, 
where the Indians, instead of the x so common in Iroquois speéch, 
now pronounce a thick medial consonant between 7 and Z. Only 
the old people retain the primitive r-sound. My Iroquois informant 
tells me that a pure Z will probably be pronounced by. the next 
generation. 
I must regard it as most fortunate for students of Algic philology 
that Mr. Speck has been able to collect these scanty and incorrectly 
preserved relics of a lost Algonquian language. 
GLOSSARY OF. SKAGHTICOKE WorDS. 
Chakis “negro ’? is undoubtedly cognitive with Stiles’s Pequot 
auchugyeze ‘* blackbird’? which must stand for chokésu; cf. RW.® 
suckésu “he is-black’’.from suck? ‘‘ black.’? The Del. sukach- 
qualles negro’? is evidently a more distant cognate. I believe 
that chd@#iis was a New England loanword among these Skaghticoke 
Indians. The Aben. mazawigit ‘‘negro’’ is perhaps cognitive 
with Natick mz, the regular word for ‘‘ black”’ in that language.* 
2 President Stiles was the author of a Pequot vocabulary, the MS. of which is 
now in Yale University Library. This glossary is extensively quoted in J. 
Trumbull’s Wasick Dictionary, Washington, 1903. 
3RW denotes Roger Williams in his Aey into the Language of America, 
which is-a treatise'on the Narragansett idiom, 
. 4 In indicating the pronunciation of the Skaghticoke words in this article, I 
have’ used the Italian yowel values, except #—=w in “‘ but,”’ and ’=a short inde- 
