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Microform

Author

Eliot, John, 1604-1690.

Title The Indian grammar begun [microform] : or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules / Cambridge, Mass. Printed by M. Johnson, 1666.

Imprint

Boston : Directors of the Old South work, 1896.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets	LAC 40051	---	Available

Description	16 p.
Series	Old South leaflets : General series ; v. 3, no. 52
	Library of American civilization ; LAC 40051
Note	Caption title.
	"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, Bibl. of the Algonquian lang., p. 172.
	No. 106 of Burt Franklin research and source work series.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 40051)
Subject	Massachusetts language -- Grammar.