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The sound resembles the Engh'sh [j] (yard, you) in words 

 like \aja-]\ \ajnuq\'^, [ajar/nrj]'^, \kujcik]*, or is drawn a little 

 farther back, as, for instance, in [(jajaq]^ = fi^^', l'afß'j^^'l^ etc. 

 In other combinations, on the other hand, it is produced farther 

 front in the mouth with that part of the tongue whicii lies just 

 behind the blade and opposite to the arch-rim (alveolare), as in 

 [najw]'' ^ perhaps also in {pcriajuàt}^, accordingly у2^. In 

 several instances, I observed that the point of the tongue was 

 slightly raised toward the lower edge of the upper teeth, and 

 likewise that the hack of Ihe tongue was slightly grooved or 

 shovel-formed. 



j is generally found only between back vowels. There is 

 an audible ditference between \pujük]^ where J = /'23^, and 

 [ргпщ (jv рищ]^'^, where the sound is entirely vocalic (/'34^). 



i \) ßl^ г''* foi" ß^^'^ r'-^'*) 

 Greenlandic [.s ç] = 2) ^5 » r'^^ (or ß » /-12^) 



3) /91 3^- г2У (or /513«'- г23'^) 



Cf. French, Icelandic, Færoic*) s = у9 P^- 



Danish, German*) s = ßV^-^ German seh (.^j == ab^ /-12'- 



English*) s = /51*-, English sh [Ц = j-I'^ 



The North Greenlandic ^-sounds are rather variable and 

 are therefore difficult to determine. 



s no. I (/si: distinct point-sound, the point of the tongue 

 being raised so that it rests just back of the lower edge of the 

 upper teeth; narrow groove, high natural pitch. The sound is 

 always short. It occurs most in the combination ts , as in 

 [nätseq]^^ (cf. section on /-sound p. 92). 



*) Jespersen: Fonetik gg 192 and 20S. 



^ aunt * a boil ' a toy, cup and ball * loins * kajak * the lower part 

 of the abdomen ' his \ounger sister " the third '■' oxidized blubber ^° a 

 bird's crop " ringed seal \phoca fcetida). 



