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HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES 



1001 



Here I may mention an Alaska word, part of which is apparently 

 influenced by retrogressive uvularization: ir' shnX7ihrdt (Barnum 337) 

 MOUNTAIN SPIRITS is the Same word as Gr. isserqat {<^irsi7iinqat'l)^ 

 singular isseraq^ spelled by Egede (1750) irsernh. The same is true 

 of the Al. 'kal'vlok (Barnum) throat, 'kachluk (Schultze) uiP=Gr. 

 qavLoq LIP. 



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