A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language: For the Use of Missionaries and Other Persons Living Among the Indians (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language: For the Use of Missionaries and Other Persons Living Among the IndiansOrthography, (according to the meaning of this Greek word, correct writing,) teaches the art of Spelling the words of a lan guage with correctness and propriety. To Speak and write is the faculty and art of expressing thoughts with words. Words then are signs of our thoughts. These signs are either sounds uttered 'by the mouth, or marks formed by the hand.Words are composed of letters, which are the representatives of sounds formed by the organs of Speech.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.