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q, k, p and t. A syllable in a word can end with no conso- 

 nant but t, g, r, ng or v. 



If we now examine the methods of spelling employed by 

 authors on the other dialects, aud in the older Greenlandish 

 literature, with the rules recently adopted in the latter, comparing 

 the same words as they have been rendered by different writers, 

 we find the characters of our alphabet varied as follows : 



a as ce, a, ae, e, i, aa, ea, o. 



e ce, ae, i, 0, ee. 



f ~ h, v. 



9 99> 9\9 ] h cl h h ph 



i e, ce, ae, ee, ii, 



i y- 



k k, k\ kr, k\ pk, pkp, ch, p, ng, rn. 



k g, q, ng. 



I II 



dl~ I, kl. 



ng n. 



a, 00. 



p b, bb. 



r p, rr. 



r rh, ch, %, g, p. 



s ch, sch, sh, p, tch, dj, dj, dz, tg, z. 



ss s, rs, rss, j, ts, ds and the same as for s. 



t n, d. 



u 0, 00. IV. 



v b, p, u, w. 



Combinations of letters varied: 

 ai as i, e, ee. 

 agdl okl. 

 aun awn. 



am (in the word arnaq a woman) agn, agan, ahan, an, 

 achan, akn, agh, okhan, oghan, aan, orig'n. 



