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For further examples see Thalbit;?er 1, 245. 



qa'noq how; qano'rijppa how is it; qano'runna how is that; qanor- 



o'qarpa how did he say 

 'ern'neq son; 'ernn^ra {<erneq-{-a) his son 

 sooq why; 'sooruna yes, certainly {sooq una why do you ask) 

 oqarpoq (West Greenland) he says; orarpoq (East Greenland); 



orarpoq (Mackenzie river, Petitot, p. xxxiv, opakluartuarh) 

 seqineq (West Greenland); seriniktenga (Baffin land, Boas I) 



the sun 

 neqe (West Greenland) meat; neriwoya (West Greenland) I eat 



(of. Southwest Alaska nuqrhoa I eat) 



^>v. The shift ^>r in the Mackenzie-river dialect is doubtful; e. g., 

 in uwagxit (Southwest Greenland) we, uivarut (?) (Mackenzie 

 river, Petitot) we. 



g> 5[-iV]. This shift is found in the terminal sound of many words 

 of the Baffin-land, Smith-sound, and Ammassalik dialects, which 

 have their terminal sounds nasalized, whereas the other dialects 

 keep the oral tenuis q. Also the dialect of the Mackenzie-river 

 Eskimo bears evidence of a similar tendency, as shown b}^ some 

 few examples of it; e. g., 



Smith sound tuluang [tuluaNJ raven Central Greenland tulu^aq 

 Baffin land sirinirn\seriniN^ the sun Central Greenland seqineq 

 Mackenzie river aten [ateN'\ a name Central Greenland ateq 



r'>q. This shift takes place in the dialect of Oommannaq fiord in 

 North Greenland in those words in which r occurs between 

 vowels; e. g., in — 



Oommannaq Fiord Disco Bay 



neqiwoq Tieriwoq he eats 



anoqe anm'e wind 



log. This shift appears in a comparison of some of the possessive 

 and verbal endings of the Greenland and Southwest Alaska 

 dialects. 



Southwest Alaska South Greenland 



-ka my, I -ga my, I 



dtkuka dtordkd (Barnum 312), ka])itaga atoriga my coat I 



my coat I put it on {atkuk na- who use it {kapitak a kayak- 



tive fur coat) ing coat) 



-ku, -ke it, them -go^ -git it, them 



atorluku (Barnum 312) atorLugo he using it 



atoryakondku {ibid.) atoqinago do not use it 



atoq^uke {ibid.) atoTLugo he using them 



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