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p like p in poor, but also approaching to b. 



{q see above.) 



r merely as a palatal r. 



{rng , merely differing from ng by making the antecedent 

 vowel deeper; ng can be used instead of it.) 



[r like a deeply palatal German ch; a simple r may also 

 suffice.) 



s like s in so. 



*s, called esh, like sh in short, but something softer. 



t like t in ten, but also nearly like d. 



u like oo in proof'>; before j almost like the german ti; 

 in South and especially in East Greenland like I. 



v like v in event, but produced with the lips alone, with- 

 out the aid of the teeth. 



The letter h is only used in some interjections, and can 

 be wholly omitted. 



In Diphthongs the second vowel is always pronounced softly, 

 f. i. ae mostly like a, ai like y in why. 



The accents are: jl short and sharp, long and sharp, 

 long and dull. Although their use is of great importance in 

 the system adopted for Greenland, 1 have, as already mentioned, 

 been obliged to leave out a great many of them in rendering 

 words from vocabularies in which they are so profusely and 

 indiscriminately applied in connection with the hyphens, that 

 copying them would have offered a hopeless labour. 



If we compare this alphabet with that proposed by Powell 

 in his "Introduction to the study of Indian languages , it will 

 be found to agree tolerably well with it, of course when it is 

 considered that the latter comprises what will be required to 

 express the sounds occurring in all the American tongues. 



The application of consonants is limited by strict rules. 

 A syllable cannot commence, and a word cannot end, with 

 two consonants. No word can begin with /, r, g, v, mg or 

 ng , nor end with any other consonants than the hard ones 



