The Indian grammar begun, or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules
Subtitle: for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the futherance of the Gospel among them
By: by John Eliot
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 106; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1440:35; Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by Marmaduke Johnson
Published: 1666
Place of publication: Cambridge [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Massachuset language; Grammar
Notes: "The language of which this grammar treats was specifically that of the Massachusetts tribes of Indians, dwelling near the sea-coast of the present state of Massachusetts ... It was spoken ... by the Wampanoags of Plymouth Colony, the Narragansets and Niantics, the islanders of Nope (Martha's Vineyard) , the Montauks, etc. ... It has also been called the Nonantum language, but more frequently the Natick tongue."-Pilling, bibliography of the Algonquian lang., p. 172.

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