finals that are truncated in most environments in other SNEA languages.

N-dialect

The most defining feature of Massachusett in comparison to other SNEA languages is the outcome of in reflexes of PEA *r, itself a merger of Proto-Algonquian *r and *?. Massachusett and its dialects always have and thus its classification as an SNEA N-dialect. This becomes in the Y-dialects of Narragansett, Eastern and Western Niantic and Mohegan-Pequot, in the R-dialects of Quiripi and in the L-dialect Nipmuc language.

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