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The Viking and the Red Man, the Old Norse Origin of the Algonquin Language. Reider T Sherwin (pp. xxvi+340. $2.50. New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1940.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2017
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1 See L. Bloomfield, “On the Sound-System of Central Algonquian,” Language, Vol. 1, p. 130, 1925, for an excellent example of both the historical method in linguistics and the fundamentals of Algonquian reconstruction.
Penobscot or Abnaki terms are given in my own phonemic transcription based on field work done in Maine from 1932–39. The asterisk (*) marks forms reconstructed by the historical technioue.