Book Announcement: Wood's Vocabulary of Massachusett (1634)

Tony Schiavo EvolPub at aol.com
Thu Nov 14 14:30:26 UTC 2002


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Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following
volume from the American Language Reprints (ALR) series:

Volume 27:

Wood's Vocabulary of Massachusett
William Wood, 1634

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.

October 2002 ~ 50 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-25-6 ~ $28.00

Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early
primary source records of Native and early colonial America with the goal of
making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community
and the public at large.

For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series:

http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRhome.html

Evolution Publishing
evolpub at aol.com



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