



comparing the different dialects therefore, strictly spoken it 

 might be necessary to transcribe the words of the different 

 vocabularies in the same system of orthography, only with oc- 

 casional remarks on local diversity of pronunciation. This 

 certainly must be considered almost impossible on the present 

 stage of our knowledge, as we are not always able to discern 

 between what is due to real differences and what merely to the 

 accidental deviations or difficulties just mentioned. However, in 

 one respect, it will be necessary to transcribe the words con- 

 formably to such a more uniform system. It will be shown 

 hereafter that a dictionary of the Eskimo language , as to its 

 alphabetical order more than any other, REQUIRES TO BE AR- 

 RANGED BY MEANS OF THE RADICAL WORDS OR STEMS. In a 

 glossary comprising several dialects, it will therefore be neces- 

 cary to use one of them as the standard in arranging the stem- 

 words alphabetically, each of them heading the list of its deriv- 

 atives. Consequently words will happen to be grouped together 

 which must be supposed akin to each other, although differently 

 spelled according to the pronunciation in the dialect to which 

 they belong. 



On account of the want of consistency in all the other 

 vocabularies and their mutual disagreement, WE MUST RESORT 

 TO GREENLANDISH WITH ITS SERIES OF RADICAL WORDS AS THE 

 STANDARD. But at the same time we meet with words in the 

 other dialects which can not be referred to any of the latter, 

 but require stems to be assumed peculiar to the other dialects. 

 In order to have these supposed new stems properly placed we 

 shall be obliged to take into consideration how they probably 

 might have sounded, if they had occurred in Greenlandish. While 

 in this way in the glossary given hereafter the stems are all 

 reduced or modified according to the orthography adopted by 

 Kleinschmidt for Greenland, on the other hand all the derivatives 

 are rendered as they are found in the original works from 

 which they are taken, only with the exception of supplanting a 



