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few, apparently quite superfluous foreign characters by their 

 ordinary counterparts, and of restricting the application of ac- 

 cents and hyphens, which in some works are found obviously 

 too abundant while in others they are almost wanting. 



The Greenland language likes full and plain vowels, pre- 

 ferring syllables composed of one vowel and one consonant. 

 Two consonants are not allowed to be combined, unless suscep- 

 tible of perfect coalescence. A Greenlander is unable to in- 

 sert half vowels, as in the words: bridge, blow, cloud, he will 

 say: berridge, billow, calloud. 



The following list represents the letters adopted by Klein- 

 schmidt for the modern orthography and their pronunciation: 



a like a in «father», sometimes, especially before h and t 

 like a in «at». 



e like e in «represent"; strictly spoken it is only an г, 

 when this should be placed before a guttural sound or at the 

 end of a word. 



/ like f in «if«) , or merely as a sharpened i', turning into 

 a V after a consonant. 



g like g in «good«. 



г like i in «it-, or ее in «three». 



) like у in «yard». 



/c (5'), called к.а^ like a very guttural k, something between 

 g, rk and rkr. As it is the only new character that has been 

 found necessary for the alphabet, I have preferred to adopt a 

 q^ also proposed by others for this sound. 



Ä;, called ke^ like с in «can» or ck in «lack». 



I like 1 in «holy». 



ål like tl in «softly», is merely an I sharpened after a 

 consonant. 



m like m in «me». 



n like II ni «no». 



ng a nasal n. 



like in «other», is the same to и as e is to i. 



