sound of x is also believed to be wanting in all the Algonquin dialects but the Delaware and Mahican of the Hudson valley, in which it is fully heard in Coxsackie, and in a few of the ear

geographical terms of New Jersey, the sound of r is repre Thus an alphabet of five vowels and thirteen sented in ah. lier

consonants is capable of expressing, either simply or in com In this bination, every full sound of the Algonquin language. estimate of primary sounds, the letters <:, and ^, and y as re The soft of presenting a vowel sound, are entirely rejected.

The sound of ^is always that of k. In the the formation of words vowelic, diphthongal and mixed sounds

c is J,

the hard, k.

are syllabic.

The following table represents the

syllables on the primary vowel sounds :

(0

elementary

APPENDIX. (0 EE as in me

HUDSON RIPER INDIANS.

of k by which it is followed, as in the attempt to pronounce gk. The combinations of cb, sh, and z, are common, as are also those of bw^ dw, gw, and hw.

Al expresses the sound of a as in

fate ;

ah the sound of a as in father ; au, as in fall, auction, and

law ;

au

in

in

media ,

in

converting

ee is

ia, as the sound of i alw , ouw and eow appear different moods ib, the

the sound of e as in feel ;

the sound of o in voice , <?/,