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Ablativ^e 



Instrumentalis 



Prosecutive ^ 



Conformative 

 or ^qualis 



% 



uk mgrinuk 



Northwest Greenland Southwest Alaska 



Plural Plural 



if qaqqanit from the 



mountains 

 ik qaqqanik by the 

 mountains 

 irjut qaqqatiyiit over the Phun lngriizhun\iyrit- 

 mountains Phu7i\ 



tut qaqqattut like the tun IngrUtun 

 mountains 



Northwest Greenland 



Singular 



Absolutive illo a house, the 



house 

 Allative -ut Ihnimiit to, into, the 



house 

 Locative -e iLLume in the house 



Ablative -!t tLLurnlt from the 



house 

 Instrumentalis -il' iLHimik by (with) 



the house 

 Prosecutive -hid., -yut iLLukhut through the 



house 



Plural 



iLLut houses, the 



houses 

 iLLuniit to, into, the 



houses 

 iLLune in the houses 

 iLLunit from the 



houses 

 (LLunik by (with) the 



houses 

 iLLutlyut through the 



liouses 



There is only one kind of irregularity, or of deviation from this 

 type of inflection, arising by the retention of the final consonant of 

 the absolutive case in the other cases, this consonant being assimilated 

 with the initial consonant of the case-suffix. Accordingly, onl}^ such 

 words as end in a consonant in the absolutive singular may show irregu- 

 larities; e. g., iiLLoq^ which retains its final y, assimilated into r in 

 four of the singular cases, but is quite regular in the plural. 



Singular 



Absolutive uLLoq a da}', the day 



Allative uLLormut to the day 



Locative uLLorme in the day, on 



the day 

 Ablative uLLormit from the day 



Instrumentalis uLLormik with the day 

 Prosecutive uLLukkut in or through 



the day 



Plural (regular) 



uLLut days 

 uLLicmit to the days 

 iiLLune in the da3's 



uLLunit from the days 

 uLLunik with the daj-s 

 uLLutiyut through the 

 days 



Note: uLLorme on that day; uLLume to-day. 



' The prosecutive plural ends, in Southwest Greenland, in -//(/;(? (=Labrador), which form is nearer 

 to the Alaska -t'hun (or Uxim'!) than is the north Grecnlandic form. 



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