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164 dren ue to name their Father, and ome others.

The Accent and Pronunciation of it is hard and difficult, becaue they peak very thick, and in the Throat. The ame Language is poke throughout the whole Country, though the Accent and Pronunciation differs here and there, as different Dialects; chiefly towards the Southern Parts, where they have received and adopted many foreign Words, not ued in the northern Parts. But the Angekuts, or Divines, make ue of a particular Speech, whenever they conjure; for then they ue metaphorical Locutions and Words in a contrary Sene. The alo have a particular Pronunciation peculiar to themelves, and different from that of the Men, making ue of the oftet Letters at the end of Words, intead of hard ones; for Example, Am, for Ap, that is, Yes. Saving, for Savik, a Knife. Their Language, in common, wants the Letters, c, d, f, g, x. They have beides many double and unknown Cononants, which