November 07, 2024
NAMING PLACES THE PENOBSCOT WAY

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Originally an oral culture, there was no official Penobscot alphabet until the 1930s, when the late linguist Frank T. Seibert Jr. used the International Phonetic Alphabet – a standardized notation system representing distinctive sounds used in all spoken languages – to devise one. Unlike the 26-letter English alphabet,… Read More

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