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" Edwards concludes: It is not to be supposed, that the like coincidence is extended to all the words of those languages. Very many words are totally different. Still the analogy is such as is sufficient to show, that they are mere dialects of the same... "
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Page 89
by Massachusetts Historical Society - 1843
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Works, Volume 1

Jonathan Edwards - 1850 - 588 pages
...o or oh is used, when a or ah is used in the correspondent words of the other languages ; asMquoh, Mauquah. I doubt not the sound of those two syllables...the different tribes. It is not to be supposed, that the like coincidence is extended to all the words of those languages. Very many words are totally different....
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life and Character, Volume 1

Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards - 1854 - 584 pages
...is used, when a or itk is used in the correspondent words of the other languages ; asMquoh, Mauquuh. I doubt not the sound of those two syllables is exactly...the different tribes. It is not to be supposed, that the like coincidence is extended to all the words of those languages. Very many words are totally different....
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Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History

Julie Tetel Andresen - 1990 - 324 pages
...Mohegan and Chippiwan (ie Ojibwa) - a move which Jones did not make in his discourse - and concludes: It is not to be supposed, that the like coincidence is...they are mere dialects of the same original language. (quoted in Koerner 1986b: iii) In the United States, Edwards's paper was certainly regarded as an important...
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American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America

Lyle Campbell - 2000 - 527 pages
..."radically the same [are from the same family]," though he was also fully aware of their differences: "It is not to be supposed, that the like coincidence is...is sufficient to show, that they are mere dialects [sisters] of the same original language [family]" (1788:11; see also Andresen 1990:45, Wolfart 1982:403,...
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