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has no method of indicating the change that takes place in 

 the form of the soft palate (depression, rounding) and accord- 

 ingly in the resonance-chamber as a whole, I reserve the 

 exponent: '^ for designating that a sound is genetically and 

 acoustically affected by such a change [y^). — For the sake of 

 completeness, 1 have also tried to classify the vowels according 

 to the English (Bell's) system, although with some modification 

 (V. § 16). 



As regards my vowel- symbols, in the beginning of my stay 

 in Greenland, I tried to use the current sound-symbols in my 

 own and in other languages, but I soon found that they could 

 not very well cover all of the Greenlandic vowel-sounds; there 

 is no harmonious relation between the vowel-series of the dif- 

 ferent languages. I hope that those symbols which I have used 

 will be the easier to read because in form they resemble 

 corresponding or related symbols in other languages. The 

 upright vowel-symbols indicate uvularized Greenlandic vowels. 

 Two dots over a vowel indicate that it is relatively much closed 

 and protruded ; one dot over a vowel indicates the same but 

 in less degree; only the vowels i and Ï are excepted. A и or 

 г in the position of exponent indicates a glide in the direction 

 of that sound (a", a'). It is only in the words enclosed in 

 brackets, however, that I make strict use of these various 

 diacritics. 



§ 13. Survey of the commonest shades of \ о w e I - 

 articulations, which I observed in the North Greenlandic 

 language, arranged according to 1) rounding of the lips 

 2) distance between the tongue and the palate 3) place of 

 articulation. 



