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��PENOBSCOT TRANSFORMER TALES

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��Varying between true sonant and intermediate surd-sonant.

��is to make available the body of the north- eastern Indian material.

��EXPLANATION OF THE CHARACTERS AND SOUNDS IN PENOBSCOT

a. as in father, of medium length.

a'. . lengthened.

e. . open medium, about as in met.

t. . long open e, as in North German Bar.

e -. . close and long, like a in say.

i. . short, as in pin.

r. . long and close, like ee in queen.

. . close, medium in length.

o -. . close and longer, with more protruding lips.

u. . like oo in boot.

u'. . long, with protruded lips.

a. . dulled form of short a, like of English but.

3 . . short obscure vowel of uncertain quality, like e in flower.

o' '. . rather long, like a in fall; o, open and shorter.

b-p. . bilabial stops.

d t. . alveolar stops, no lin- gual-dental contact.

g-k. . medial palatal stops.

s z. . dorsal sibilants.

tc and dj surd and sonant sibilant affricatives, cor- responding respectively to English ch and j.

m. . as in English.

n. as in English.

i;. . palatal nasal, like ng of English sing.

1 as in English.

1 ., soft lateral surd, tongue-tip and alveolar contact, preceded and accompanied by aspiration. The effect of this sound is approximated by condensing vowel fol- lowed by aspiration and I; (Via).

h. as in English.

w as in English.

y as in English.

t. . nasalized vowel, <j, f., etc.

. aspiration following vowel or consonant. . accent stress; ' secondary stress.

A superior dot following a vowel or conso- nant denotes lengthening.

There is a rhetorical tendency among the purest speakers to separate two consonants coming together by a weak vocalic glide.

1 Published with the permission of the Division of Anthropology, Geological Survey of Canada.

��This largely eliminates the consonant clusters from Penobscot, which occur commonly in neighboring dialects. Furthermore, in Pe- nobscot, the endings of words are slurred in utterance. There are no pronounced tone modulations. In recording the texts, where the narrator occasionally varied in the pro- nunciation of words, the variances were re- tained for their rhetorical value.

��TALES OF GLUSKA'BE "THE DECEIVER" 1

��I. GLUSKA'BE'S CHILDHOOD

��ndatlo"kp'gan My story

��Gluskp'be Gluskp'be.

��wi'gi-'djik Lived

��moni'mkwes-u na'ga o'kwenas-al'

woodchuck and her grandchild

Gluskp'be oma'djeganan mgsr'gegwus Gluskp 'be. He grew up, everything

udagi - "krmun eli'gado'n'kemun she taught him, how to hunt,

��na ga and

��e'-li-a'tc also how

��a'malut to catch

��gi-za'uwasehi-'dit they could live.

��na me s-a fish,

ma'lam

At last

��we'dji'tc so that also

Gluskp'be Gluskp'be

��de''bagil ogi - zawe"kahan 2 ta'mbi'al na'ga grew up enough that he could handle 2 bow and

ba"kwal arrows,

ali-'ta'wi ta'mbi "Make me bow

��na'ga o"kamas'al' and to his grandmother

��na ga and

��udr'lan he said,

ba"kwal arrows,

��naga'di'gadona'lan no'lke ki's I want to hunt deer; already

��wa'daman weary

��ma't3gwe"s'wi - ye of rabbit-meat

��nzr- I am'

na'ga and

��name"s'i'ye nogr'wo's'an unr'tan no'lka' fish-meat." Then he roamed in the woods, he slew* deer.

ki'i- wli'daha'zu moni'mkwe's-u ga'matc Ki-i-1 she rejoiced Woodchuck. Very

2 Between ten and thirteen years of age.

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