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For examples of forms ending in y from Southwest Alaska, see 

 Barnnm, "Grammatical Fundamentals,'"' the stories 'passim^ 

 e.g., p. 286; but in his vocabulary, and elsewhere in his gram- 

 mar, the words end in h or q. 



^>yf. In most of the dialects the fricative g is frequently used; but 

 in the northeastern group it is regularly replaced by y^ some- 

 times by g. g is found also in Labrador and in the southern 

 part of West Greenland, between Holstensborg and Julianehab 

 (61°-66° N. lat.); whereas north of Holstensborg the same words 

 are pronounced with y instead of g. 



Southern North of 



West Greenland Holstensborg 



ajagaq ajayaq cup and ball 



naalagaq naalayaq master 



igippaa iyippaa he throws it away 



iga iya {lya) kettle 



paniga paniya my daughter 



qaqugo qaqoyo when (in the future) 



Cf . the Labrador forms ajagaq^ iga, jpanniga^ qaqugo, toogaq walrus- 

 tusk 



Another example is: 



South Greenland oqarplgaa he says to him; North Greenland 

 oqavFiyaa (Upernavik oqarpiyaa\ Ammassalik onarpeewaa) 



g and w shift in the Labrador and North Greenland forms; e. g., in — 



Labrador (and 

 South Greenland) Northwest Greenland 



tulugaq tuhiwaq raven 



oogaq oowaq codtish 



inugaq inuival' toe 



The interchange between y and g in uioaya i, and uwagut we, may 

 also be appropriately mentioned here. It suggests that -ya in 

 xiwaya may have originated from -ga, although at a very early 

 period, since the Southwest Alaska form of this word is hwengd 

 (Barnum 68); i. e., '^'iveya. 

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