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In his report, "Observation on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians...", Jonathan Edwards observes the Mohegan language "have no diversity of gender, either in nouns or pronouns". He also observed that Mohegan can also use plural forms just by adding an extra letter to the singular form. Such as the singular word for boy is penumpaufoo and the plural form is penumpaufoouk for boys. The Mohegan language does not contain any adjectives, instead neuter verbs are used to express the qualities.

References


 * Edwards, Jonathan, Jr. 1787. Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians, in Which the Extent of that Language in North America is Shewn, its Genius is Grammatically Traced, Some of its Peculiarities, and Some Instances of Analogy between that and the Hebrew are Pointed out. Josiah Meigs, New Haven, Connecticut.