ESKIMO VOCABULARY. 



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Comparative Table of the Dialects spoken by the Beering's 

 Sea and Labrador Eskimos. 



Obs. S. denotes " singular ; " D. " dual ; " P. "plural." W. points out 

 words taken from Captain Washington's vocabulary, a is sounded as in 

 " father ; " a as in " law ; " e as in " there ; " i as ee in " see ; " i as in " ink," 

 " pin ; " Mas oo in " good ; " kh or ch in the Scottish word " loch," or Irish 

 "lough ;" h after g signifies that the latter has the soft pronunciation as in 

 "give ;" the hyphen following g, gives nearly the same sound. 



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