A Key Into The Language Of America Or An Help To The Language Of The Natives In That Part Of America Called New England

A Key into the Language of America, also known as An help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America called New England, is a detailed colonial study of the native languages and dialects of the Native American tribes in New England in the 17th century. It mainly focused on the Algonquian and the Narragansett languages. This book is widely believed to be responsible for making American Indian languages more accessible and introducing some words into the English language.

A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.

Excerpt from A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America, Called New-England: Together, With Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &C. Of the Aforesaid Natives, in Peace and Warre, in Life and Death; On All Which Are Added Spirituall Observations, General and Particular by the Author 3122 'azbut for their later Defcem and whence they came into thofe pars, it feemcs as hand to finde, a's to fiude the Well/yaw! Of fom'e fneih Streame, which running many miles out of the [oumrey to the (311: Ocean, hath met with many mixing Streamer by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers written by Roger Williams, who was forced to leave Massachusetts and established Rhode Island. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.