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In consequence of the peculiar, strongly protruding posi- 

 tion of the tongue at the formation of these sounds (t n I ?.), 

 palatalization often takes place. However, since it is 

 impossible to observe this directly — it is probably to be 

 indicated by ßO^ j-O^ i.e. closure both at the teeth and at the 

 arch-rim — and since it has no appreciable acoustic effect on 

 the consonant-sound (but on the preceding vowel, as we shall see 

 later), 1 have preferred to leave this palatalization imindicated. 



M 



[папщ] ^ 

 \ana-na'\ ^ 

 [tayveq] ^ 

 [агггас]^ 

 \nan^ik-ät] ° 

 \an-Qq] ^ 

 [jJcru'dt]"' 

 \atcfne] ^ 

 [asurneq] ^ 

 ['ars'ar^^sr'îYJ ^^ . 



^90e<i{e) 



IV, XX [n] ß'^(^''> 



IV \n] /9«f(fe' 



ß de (d) 



The [/]-sounds in Greenlandic are usually bilateral point- 

 tongue sounds, produced 



1) with the point of the tongue supported against the lower 

 edge or the back surface of the front teeth, and sometimes 

 against the place: ef; 



2) with the point of the tongue bent up toward the arch-rim. 



The aspirated Å is articulated almost exclusively with the 

 first position i. e. with the point of the tongue supported against 

 the teeth. So the relation between Å and / is the same as that 

 between t and n : À is more nearly interdental than /. 



' a bear ' his or her mother ^ the longest * a woman ' the thing 

 that you have found * the largest ' (a kind of) flowers " under it ** land 

 breeze, east wind "* aurora borealis. 



