she-we-she-she-kah-kane
che-nah-ne-sah-ne-se-yong; mah-noo sah-koo kah-ke-nah
shah-koo-te-nah-mah-we-she-nom mah-che-ah-ye-e-wish.
Keen-mah-ween ke te-pain-tahn ke-che-oo-ke-mah-we-win,
ki-ya euh ke-che-e-she-wa-pe-se-win, ki-ya euh ah-nah-me-ah-win
ka-che-me-nwa-tah-quok, kah-ke-nik ki-ya kah-ke-nik.--Amen.

GRACE BEFORE MEAT.

Ah-noo-shoo-tah-mah-ka-win, che-pwah-we-se-ningk.

O Ke-sha-mun-ne-too Ish-pe-ming a-yah-yun, Shah-wain-tah-mah-we-she-nom
mahn-tdah me-chim-pe-mah-te-se-win, kah-pah-ke-te-nah-mah-we-yongk;
me-tdush ka-oon-je-mah-skah-we-se-yongk che-ah-noo-ke-tah-koo yun;
me-owh Jesus Christ a-spa-ne-moo-yongk. Amen.

GRACE AFTER MEAT.

Ah-noo-shoo-tah-mah-ka-win, kah-e-squah, we-se-ningk.

O Ke-sha-mun-ne-too, neeng-keche Noo-se-non, me-quaich wa-wa-neh
kah-we-se-ne-yongk noo-koom, ki-ya ain-tah-soo-ke-she-kuck
shah-wain-ne-me-yongk; me-sah-owh Jesus Christ kah-ke-nigk
ka-ah-pa-ne-moo-yongk. Amen.

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Sketch of Grammar
of the
CHIPPEWAY LANGUAGE,

To Which Is Added a Vocabulary
of some of the most common Words.

By JOHN SUMMERFIELD,
alias,
SAHGAHJEWAGAHBAHWEH.

Cazenovia:
PRESS OF J. F. FAIRCHILD & SON.
1834.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The following pages were written as an exercise for my leisure hours,
while attending the Oneida Conference Seminary during the past winter.
As it is the first attempt that, to my knowledge, has ever been made to
reduce the Chippeway language to any system, it cannot be expected to be
otherwise than imperfect, and perhaps may hereafter be found to be, in
some respects, erroneous. It is, however, as free from errors as my
present means have enabled me to make it. It has been printed at the
request of my friends, by a fellow student, at his own suggestion and
expense.

J. SUMMERFIELD.

Cazenovia, April 10, 1834.

SKETCH OF GRAMMAR, &c.

The Letters used in the Chippeway Language, are twenty-one, viz.
A, a; B, b; C, c; D, d; E, e; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k; M, m; N, n;
O, o; P, p; Q, q; S, s; T, t; U, u; W, w; Y, y; Z, z. F, L, R, V, and X,
are not used.

There are, in the Chippeway Language, ten parts of Speech, namely,
the _article_, the _noun_, the _pronoun_, the _adjective_, the _verb_,
the _participle_, the _adverb_, the _preposition_, the _conjunction_,
and the _interjection_.

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