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But here also the manner in which the endings are appended 

 is submitted to complicated rules requiring them to be divided in six 

 classes. 



Examples are: nunti his country, nundta his country's, nunaga 

 my c, kivfd his servant, Jcivfane his (own) servant, oqausia his word, 

 oqausertik their (own) words, ernera his (my) son, enerpit thy son's 

 (subjective). 



As to the (dependent) CASES WITH APPOSITIONS, the nouns 

 without suffixes are inflected as follows : 



When they have to join on nouns with suffixes they are some- 

 what transformed, but in both cases the rules are not so complicated 

 as those above alluded to. 



Examples are: nuname on land, nunamit from the land, nunakut 

 by land, ndlagkamut to the master, siorqamik with or by (means of) 

 sand (sioraq). 



The LABRADOR DIALECT only shows a few differences from 

 what is here stated. The irregular forms are partly wanting. Some 

 suffixes have an ng appended before them, f. i. kivfanga, kivfangil, 

 oqausinga for: kivfd, kivfat, oqausia. It seems that the CENTRAL 

 DIALECTS also in this respect show nearer kinship to the Labrador 

 than to the Greentand tongue. In the MACKENZIE GRAMMAR we 

 also are able to trace almost all the Greertlandish forms , although 

 more or less disfigured by evident misunderstanding. The most 

 striking example of the latter is that of considering the subjective 

 merelly as a genitive, without mentioning its relation to a transitive 

 verb. It is curious that the word tupeq (a tent) in Greenl. and 

 Mack, has the same anomalous plural tovqit, while in Labr. it has the 

 regular tupit. In the glossaries of the WESTERN DIALECTS we find 

 examples of flexional endings referring to number, possession and 

 appositions, wilh or without suffixes, but they are too incomplete 

 for deriving any general rule wilh regard to their relation to the 

 Eastern dialects. 



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