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To the north in Sermiligaq Fjord there were no inhabitants 

 that winter, but Maratti and his family lived in a smaller fjord 

 Kangertiwarsikajik (Kangerdluarsikajik) close to the east of Sermiligaq. 



I may append a list of some of the most common East Green- 

 land place names, to show the corresponding forms used by Holm 

 and by myself. The first, which owe their form mainly to Holm's 

 West Greenland interpreter (Johan Petersen) and his accompany- 

 ing missionary (Hanserak) on his "Konebaads-Expedition" along the 

 east coast have been officially adopted on the charts and in the 

 publications. They are in reality mixed East and West Greenlandic 

 and the spelling is in accordance with Kleinschmidt's orthographic 

 principles^). Opposite these forms I give the same names in the 

 form expressed by the Ammassalikers, written according to a simpli- 

 fied, phonetic principle^). 



Eskimo place names 



Official forms Phonetic forms 



(mixed West and (pure East Green- 



East Greenlandic) landic) 



Akerninak Akernnak 



Akorninarmiut Akernernaarmeen 



Aluit Aaluin 



Aluk Alik 



Amitsuarsik Amitsuartik 



Angit Angéen [Aqeen] 



Angmagsalik Ammattalik (or -ling) 



Aniserfik Anisérpik 



Anoritok Anorïtéeq 



Apusinerajik Apusiaain 



IN East Greenland. 



Official forms Phonetic forms 



(mixed West and (pure East Green- 



East Greenlandic) landic) 



Aputitek Aputitéeq 



Auarket Awarqan 



Erkiligartek Erqilingaarteq 



Igdlerajik I^tt^^aaik 



Igdlitalik Ittitalik 



Igdloluarsuk Ittoluartiwin 



Ikatek Ikkätterng 



Ikerasak Ikaasaq 



Ikerasarsuak Ikaaättiwaq 



Ikerasausak Ikaasaasaq 



') See Holm's remarks on his orthography p. 4. 



2) The following rules may be noted: the double letters are spoken with at least 

 double the duration of the single but without changing its quality (ее = ê in 

 German See; oo^o in French rose, English foe); when r is followed by a con- 

 sonant (e. g. rm), the latter is double (r with passive point of the tongue, raising 

 the back of the tongue towards the uvula: rmm); q and r are uvular consonants, 

 the first stopped, the latter open (fricative); g is an open consonant, usually 

 sounded as a voiced fricative (as g, but replaced by some natives with the 

 nasal g); с is a loosely articulated tj or ts with the tongue blade against the 

 gum (voiceless) ; ng is always a single sound (g) and when this sound is double 

 in some words, it should always be written with ngng (or gg). The combina- 

 tions ngm and ngn of the West Greenland orthography are sounded as mm and 

 nn (cf. p. 321). For further details regarding the relation between the spoken 

 language and Kleinschmidt's orthography, see my papers in "iMeddelelser om 

 Grønland" XXXI a 904), especially p. 399, and XXXV (1910) pp. 527—529. 



