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In Labrador we find marriik for mardluk, ciggaq for agssaq, 

 nagfâq for navssaq, pivse for mivse, t sometimes for s, and iv for uj. 



In the Baffin's Land dialect several sounds seem to be 

 nearer to the Labrador than to the Greenland tongue, as f. i. 

 ;' and dj for ss, gg for gss, but more peculiar is the use of m 

 and ng for q and h at the end of words. 



As Capt. Holm on his recent expedition to East Greenland 

 was accompanied by some of the most intelligent natives from 

 the West Coast, he had an opportunity of procuring the most 

 authentic information about the significance of pronunciation 

 as real dialectic peculiarity. The native teacher Hanserak says: 

 «Certainly most of the Eastlanders' words are like ours, but 

 their strange sounding and hasty pronunciation make them 

 more troublesome to be understood by us; also because some 

 of their words are like bubbling children's speech. In this 

 way they use t for s and dl, and as they have no /, they use 

 p and V instead». — Holm and his interpreter Johan Petersen 

 have perused the dictionary in which Hanserak had inserted 

 his notes. They found out, that the Eastlanders use d or dg 

 for ts, b for p or f, d for t, g for k, г for г^, e for о and for 

 a, and sometimes j or I for s. 



The well known native Arctic traveller Hans Hendrik de- 

 scribes the Smith's Sound dialect as characterised by a profuse 

 insertion of the letter r. 



As to the Mackenzie and the Western dialects , we must 

 refer to the numerous examples given hereafter in the lexicograph- 

 ical part. 



ÎSo doubt the reader will arrive at the conclusion, that the 

 majority of the diversities here in question probably will occur 

 within the limits of one of the main dialects itself, that per- 

 haps the same deviations may be found in the extreme West 

 as in the East, and that at all events authentic investigation 

 by a professional linguist will be required to find out, whether 



