ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



18T 



Evans (J. ) — Continued. 



ALPHABET. 



(a) SYLLABICS. 



V pa /\ p§ > p5 <^ pa 



(Jtt (^ te 3td (3 ta 



^ cha p ch5 J cliO (^ cha 



q ka p k? ^ k5 ^ ka 



-j) na Q- n6 ^ nO Q na 



"1 ma p m€ ^ mO L ma 



V^ sa ^ se ^63 t^ Ba 



^:, ya ^ y5 ^ yo i-, yi 



* a, as in far. 

 (&) APPENDAGES. 



> e n, as in pr'J, it is cold. 

 '■ = ID, fi Ar'*^, sun. 

 '^'= s, II q.v/'"* boy. 

 » « p, .. /f", duck. 

 ^ « k, ti cra.bn\ ho leaves me. 

 ' « t, 11 TA', tooth. 

 es ch, »t o.'^A", very. 



• a w, when placed immediately 



to the right of a syllable, 

 as in cr<3-, my wife. 



• » i, when placed higlier to the 



right, as in o-^c'Cb'j my 

 coat. 

 •; e wl, combining the value of 

 each point as given above, 

 as in qb:, ka-kwi. 



Evans (J.) — Continued. 



" = the rough breathing, or aspi- 

 rate, as in A"d, ashes. 



^ = a combination of " and ^^ that 

 is, of the aspirate and k, 

 as in f^A", at the river, 



$ = r, as in b^^^ Christ. 



5 « 1, .. V^p^^ angel. 



o sa 00, •» Q.V«, man* 



When *••" and "o" are placed 

 to the right of a syllable, as in 

 AP'^S'O, the value of '*•" is ab- 

 sorbed by the syllable, while that 

 of "o" is affixed. Written in Ro- 

 man characters the word AP^9*o 

 will illustrate:— pekis-kwaoo; "w" 

 is within the syllable, and "o.o" is 

 affixed to it. The value of "s"^ 

 which appendage rrnist be placed 

 after the syllable it affects, is al- 

 ways absorbed except in the case of 

 V-, A-, O') <]•, iri which, though 

 " ? " is affixed in position, its value 

 is prefixed. The above combina- 

 tions are pronounced, wa, v/e, wo, 

 wa. The absorbed and the pre- 

 fixed values of " ' " are met with 

 in the word A'AP^^^-o « we-pe-kis- 

 kwaoQ, he wishes to speak. 



It will be noticed that there are 

 quantities between V and <3, v 

 axid <^ -«S:c., less fuU than th >se 

 given in the Alphabet. When 

 quantities similar to -the alphabeti- 

 cal ones are very necessary in the 

 pronunciation of a word, the period 

 " • " is placed directly over the 

 long or broad syllaljle, a-bP*CL^ =* 

 ni-ku-kwC-ta-niUn =» I shall be in 

 need. VdC crb<i*4^^ =* I shall be 

 there; here the last syllables are **a" 

 and "yiin^" both broatl b<l^^^ 

 = where you are. The last '^h^ 

 is not broad, k^-a-ya-yuu. 



