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arxpub.com>Title: Wood's Vocabulary of Massachusett Series Title: American Language Reprints (ALR), vol. 27 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Evolution Publishing www.evolpub.com Book URL: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRbooks.html Author: William Wood Hardback: ISBN: 1889758256, Pages: 50, Price: $28.00 Abstract: The earliest substantial vocabulary of Massachusett was that taken by William Wood and published in his "New England's Prospect" in 1634. It represents the North Shore dialect of the language and contains over 250 words and phrases in the now-extinct language. Included are the numbers up to twenty, days of the week, months, and names of important people and places. The American Language Reprints (ALR) series is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early primary source records of Native American languages with the goal of making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community. For a complete listing of the series, visit: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRbooks.html Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics, Historical Linguistics Subject Language(s): Wampanoag (Language Code: WAM) Language Family(ies): Eastern Algonquian , Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue