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Egedesminde District: XVIII. Porta Svendsen, Egedes- 

 minde, born 1878. XIX. Jakob Inugsuttoq, Arqittoq, born about 

 1876. XX. Ole Ugpernangittoq , Niaqornarsuk , born about 1885 

 in KdTja'dtiaq. 



That which 1 shall give from my phonetical lists in the 

 following pages can thus be considered as the empirical results 

 of my investigations with respect to the sound-elements of the 

 language. The y -list will be given in its entirety as an illus- 

 tration of how^ my lists луеге arranged and used (§ II). As for 

 the other lists, I generally give only the average result of my 

 observations for each word; in exceptional cases, the Roman 

 numerals are used to indicate the individuals in лvhose mouths 

 I observed the articulation. 



For every key-word cited from the lists, I give 1) a phone- 

 tical transcription, 2) its chief meaning, 3) analphabetical in- 

 dications of the articulation of the sound under consideration 

 according to 0. Jespersen 's system*). — For my investigations 

 of the accent of the language, the reader is referred to the 

 special section on this subject (g 21 — 23). 



3. 31y own and other methods of spelling iu (xreeiilandic. 



The forms of the words as they occur in ordinary conversation, 1 

 have been able to get hold of especially in those fragments of 

 the language which I took down in my small note-books, 

 and in the folk-tales and songs which 1 wrote down as 

 the natives told them. In all that I took down, 1 exerted myself 

 to reproduce what 1 had heard with as great phonetical accuracy 

 as possible, without consideration for any earlier system of 

 orthography. In order to make sure of what I had heard, I 

 always sought to have it repeated whenever possible. My pur- 

 pose has always been first and foremost to give a picture of 

 what I myself have observed and comprehended ; my second-hand 



0, Jespersen: The Articulntions of Speech Sounds. Marburg 1889. 

 Fonetik. København 1897—1899. Lehrbuch der FMionetik. 1903. 



