Excerpt from A List of Micmac Names of Places, Rivers Etc, , In Nova ScotiaThe consonants are sounded as in English: g is always hard, as in go, egg, and c exactly like k, ch as in chawk h follow ing a vowel in the same syllable (as in abk) is a soft guttural, like the German oh in Ich. There is no f in Micmac, when at tempting to pronounce French or English words which contain this letter, the Indians give it the sound of b or p.The vowels are sounded thus: a, as in father a, as in fate, 5, as in fat, 5, as the second a in abaft, e, as in me, 6 as in met, ei, as i in pine, as i in pin, 0, as in no, 6 as in not, 11, as in tube, use, h, as in tub, 00, as in fool, move as in good, wood, ow, as in now. When any vowel is doubled, as em, 55, ee, 6, the usual sound is prolonged, and takes the accent, but the place for the accent is the penult. 'm or 'n at the beginning of a word with the accent marked, is sounded Without a vowel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.