BOAS] HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 977 



DAGE, viGE. Central and South Greenland, East Greenland, 

 Labrador, Mackenzie river, g occurs rarely in the northern part 

 of West Greenland instead of y. The corresponding voiceless 

 sound is x or partly p. 

 iga (South Greenland), iya (North Greenland), a pot 



h is heard sometimes in interjections. 



i high narrow vowel (Bell and Sweet), as in French fini. 



ittaq many years ago 

 {llU thou 



/ between i and <?, especially before n^ ???, y. 



inaa [ina:^ its (the bird's) nest 

 ;' like y in yard, or like^* in German ja. 



ajaa his aunt 



pujoq smoke 



^, r, ij, and n are uvular consonants, so called because they are articu- 

 lated at the uvula. The posterior part of the velum and the 

 root of the tongue are drawn back and up toward the back of 

 the fauces, whereby the space in that part of the mouth seems 

 to become larger. q\s 2i stopped voiceless consonant (tenuis), 

 probably identical with the qof of the Arab (Passy, I.e., § 189). 



qaqqaq [qAq.'Aq] mountain 



arqa [Aq:a] his name 



erqaane [Eqa:ne] in the vicinity 



k as in French gas without aspiration; only before ^, e, and u, it may 

 be heard aspirated. 

 kaapoq he is hungry (pronounce k like voiceless ^), but 

 keewaa it bit him (more like [kfe:wa:]) 



I and L are articulated nearly alike, bilaterally, with the tip of the 

 tongue against the back of the upper teeth. They have the 

 latter feature in common with the Eskimo t and n. The voice- 

 less I [l] is of rare occurrence in Indo-European languages, 

 but it is well known from many other languages both in 

 America (Ik of the Nahuatl, I of Kwakiutl) and in Africa. 



ila certainly 



ulo woman's knife 



izLo house 



avLuk grampus 



£, see I. 



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