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meerqat children 

 aajypaa his companion 



d about like the vowels in French lait, German denn; between f and 

 a of the Association phonetique internationale (Passy, "Petite 

 phonetique comparee," §§ 241 and 248; Jespersen, "Lehrbuch 

 der Phonetik," §§ 152 and 156), rather wide than narrow. 



arndt [Am; at] plural of arnaq woman 

 'ndWeq a seal 

 Msi'dnne but 



c stopped front palatal, voiceless (Passy, 1, c, § 187; Jespersen, 

 1. c, §§ 118 and 168); in ordinary transcription tj or kj. Com- 

 mon in some Eskimo dialects; for instance, Mackenzie river, 

 tgitamat [citamat] four; also in the dialects of Upernavik and 

 Ammassalik in Greenland. (Thalbitzer I, 90, 190-191, 209, 

 221, 259.) f is the same sound very far forward. 



p as in German ich. 



ixxia \{g:ia\ his throat (see under x). 

 see after o. 



e more closed than e in French ktk, and a little more forward. When 

 it is used long, it sounds about like a long /. 



qaane over it, on its surface 

 neesaq [nL'SAq] a porpoise 



The "European" e, as in German see, may, however, occasionally 

 be heard. Notice the different pronunciations of my ee pure, 

 and 667' which 1 use in my ordinary transcription for EEr. The 

 first sound is about like a long /; the latter, rather like d. 

 E=e, uvularized «(cf. a and r). 

 6rn6q [Ern.'sq] son 

 meeraq [/ns.'rAq] child, plural meerqat \mE:rqdt\ 



s—e uvularized, farther back than b, and sometimes like d (Thal- 

 bitzer I, 107, 109) on account of the rounding of the innermost 

 part of the mouth. 



peerpoq [pe:rpoq] it is free, it is off 

 3=9 uvularized, short mid-vowel. 

 F bilabial fricative. 



savFaq [sAVF.'Aq] a current (Central and South Greenland, Labrador) 

 g is a ji articulated as deep in the mouth as a I-, voiced. It is usually 

 symbolized as q in North German regen, bogen, and in Danish 

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