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\afnät\^) [tamarmik]-) [па.т8а.ттШ]'^} [ётпгаад]*] 

 [mèhidriJdq]'") [ёщИ]^). 

 Still this nasalized r often retains the character of a fricative, 

 even if it is more ,, stopped" than when unnasalized. Its 

 approximation to a stopped consonant is probably due to the 

 fact that the outgoing air on its way to the nose-passage presses 

 the soft palate forward toward the back of the tongue and 

 lessens the opening between the two as much as possible. 

 Now it is likely that at the formation of this sound-combination 

 r + nasal, a gradual meeting of the soft palate, the back of 

 the longue and the back of the fauces takes place, during which 

 the mouth-passage is kept open only with difficulty. So ]fii] 

 probably often passes into ['/i'], the r having become quite closed. 

 Nasalization can also affect an isolated r and that to so 

 great a degree that a complete back-stop takes place, and an 

 entirely new sound is produced: a nasalized and voiced 

 uvular consonant, generated in the same place where q and 

 r are formed. For this sound I suggest the new symbol [5], 

 which analphabetically correspond to yO^ o3 si. This sound 

 I observed, however, only in the two northernmost districts, 

 along the coasts of the Oommannaq Fjord, and along the 

 bpernaivik coast, where it is to be heard in those words 

 which otherwise have a single r, as in : 



[qerßwdq] for the usual \qtriw':)q] "' 



[rte'ijwo^] » » » {n&riwdql^ 



[mamuTia-] » >• » [mamara-]^ 



\ati07ie\ •■ » » [anore] ^" 



{e-qina-] •' » » {erificr] ^^ 



\ak-e-quser2xr\ (tp.) » » » [ak-entserpa-\^- 

 etc. 



' women ' all ' inhabitants of the plain * graiulchilil ' becomes 

 ■«eak '^ lakes, water fpiiir.) ' is frozen stilV " he is eating ^ he likes it 

 (seil, the food) "^ wind " melody '^ raises something by pressing it 

 up from below. 



