I. The articulation and system of tbe sounds. 



§ 1. It might be of linguistic interest to possess full in- 

 formation about the racial peculiarities of the Greenlanders' 

 organs of speech, since it may be assumed that there is no 

 little connection between such peculiarities and the character- 

 istic quality of the sounds produced. But the only information 

 of this kind that we have about the Greenlanders is what is to 

 be found in works on their anthropological characteristics in 

 general. The relations between the different races of the earth 

 have seldom been investigated with the physiology of speech- 

 sounds in view, nor has there been any such interest attached 

 to the extensive anthropological research work which has been 

 undertaken in Greenland. So much, however, may be said, that 

 the Greenlander's organs of speech, like the rest of his body, 

 are strongly built. The jaws especially are broad and heavy at 

 the back and the teeth-rim is narrowly arched ; the nose is 

 unusually narrow*), and the lips are thick and fleshy. 



In the account of Sören Hansen's interesting anthropological 

 investigations in West Greenland, attention is called to "the 

 unusual breadth of the West Greenlander's lower jaw"**). This 



*) Söreri Hansen: Bidrag til Vestgionlændernes Aiilhropologi. Meddelelser 



om Grönland 1893. Vol. Vil, p. 232. 

 '*) u. s. p. 222. 



