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On account of my own uncertainty in some cases as to 

 whether it was tj or a nasalized ц tliat I heard. I think I have 

 reason to suppose that there may still occasionally be a slight 

 difference between the ?[ which is original in a number of 

 words and that ri which is a nasalized development of ^ and 

 which is now gradually establishing itself. Then the difference 

 must be that the original ц is formed with a tirm closure (j-O), 

 the new //, with a looser closure [yW. 



That g and not rj is the original sound in the words with 

 the 7-1 -form is evident from the plural form of such words as 

 \пщщ\^ plur. \niy-ät\, where у is merely a long aspirated g, 

 and from the relationship between words like [г//«|, a pot, and 

 [iyawik]^ a kitchen (the pot-place). Besides most of the dialects 

 outside of Greenland seem to have q in these words just as in 

 South Greeniandic. 



Whether the sporadic occurrence of g in North Greenland 

 is due to the fact that this sound has not yet passed entirely 

 into 71 , or whether it is due to the fact that the "kateket"8, 

 who have studied at the seminary in South Greenland, try to 

 impress on the school cliildren that this is the more correct 

 or finer sound (because the Danish missionaries use it), must 

 remain an open question (cf. g 31 on dialects in Greenland). 

 I have got the impression that the latter circumstance has had 

 some influence in preventing the sound-change from being 

 adopted by all individuals in North Greenland. 



Greeniandic y == 7-2 '°'J. 



\uy"dvnaqa.-°q\^ у2' 



[ayertoq]^ [midyo-rpdq]'^ ^y2'^^°^'' 



\sayaq] * yV°' 'J 



\па'уа\^ 7*2' 



* that is vexatious * one who is approaching ' it (the dogi is how line 

 * a thin-haired seal-skin ^ no. 



