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pronounces them distinctly only ^^ilen he taljes special pains 

 to show how the word ought to he pronounced according to 

 the current orthography. Otherwise this и or w denotes merely 

 an accompanying movement of the lips or a glide position at 

 the production of the other sounds. Ex. : 



[i'^À-it]^ [{"s-oq]'^ \pi"Å'uaiTna]''^ \на"'8-лта\* [na-"iCdq\^ 

 [«•"/l'à-V] "^ — [a'"/-«]' [qu'^/.-ima-q]^ or more frequently [aV/a, 

 qdÀ-Nnu'q]. 



[m] = «О 0^2 

 [p] = «О о" О 



\сп)га]^ аО»» [опч'щ]^'^ ^Qbcorcb [о-шг;/«-]11 аО''^"'»'' 



[и] = а2ПЬ 



Cf. English /", Danish v = a1^ 

 English w = « И 



In the articulation of the Greenlandic «■, the lips are very 

 slightly rounded (much less so than in the case of the English w)^ 

 with the lower lip\somewhat nearer the teeth than the upper lip. 

 No raising of the back of the tongue takes place. 



[ append the ^•-list in extenso as a specimen showing how 

 my phonetical lists were arranged. Here, as in the other lists, the 

 current (Kieinschmidt's) orthography is retained in the key-words. 

 The only thing I have changed in it is the Roman numerals, 

 in order to make them agree with the new numhers (Roman 

 numerals) which I assigned to my subjects of experiment after 

 my return home (cf. p. 8). Hut in reality my investigations took 



' thou ' green turf ' may you be happy! (congratulations!) * that 

 which I have found ^ it is growing out * gun " another, a stranger * a 

 foreigner, European ^ also '° beer " he is vexed with him (or iti '* ye< 

 " an auk '* the other one '' a cliff, bluff '* an owl. 



