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 be pronounced with a slight palatalization after the sibilant. The inverted comma (‘) indicates a light rough breathing similar to the Arabic medial Ḥe.

Throughout the glossary an attempt has been made to give, so far as possible, the cognates of each Pequot word. Here it should be noted that in ô = on with nasal n, as in French mon, and ö = German ö. In the German system of phonetics followed by  in his Lenâpe Dictionary has been observed. The and  words are given according to the English system followed by  and, while the  words are to be pronounced with the Italian vowels as given in ’s Otchipwe Dictionary.

Although Mrs Fielding’s dialect of Pequot is in the last stages of decay, as has already been pointed out, it still retains enough of the original phonetics and grammatical phenomena to enable us to judge very satisfactorily regarding the primitive character of the language.

In the Pequot phonetics we note that the Peq. b generally = N. p, and that the Peq. has an indeterminate consonant ḅ between b and w. This is probably the sound which Eliot indicated by ff. Furthermore Peq. d = N. t, Peq. g = N. k, and Peq. z = N. s, thus showing the marked tendency of the Pequot to medialization. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of Mrs Fielding’s Pequot is the. Thus, we find hen = N. monish;  ‘he works’ shows the same stem as the Abn. aloka; = Abn. ulôgua yesterday = N. wunnunkw;