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The Greenlandic [e] and [r] are more closed and protruded 

 than the beginning of an English [e'] in they; likewise Gr. 

 [o] and [yj as compared with Eng. [о"] in though. — [s] is 

 a short mid-tongue e, uvularized . [e-] is an ä-like uvular, [ё] 

 an e-like uvular, [è] slightly ö-like. [о-] is an å-like uvular 

 (â = open o) , [o] o-like, [o] very slightly ö-Uke, [э] slightly 

 ö-like (only occasionally found). 



§ 14. The Greenlandic vowel-shades can be tabulated in 

 the following manner, there being two chief classes corres- 

 ponding to the two spheres of resonance in the mouth. 



Normal 



rM^ 



Г'бЬ^ 



^53^(^0 .... 

 j'53s(sb) __ 

 rob 



J V u 1 a r i z e 



d 



ё 



rЬZ''-'^ 





ê 



^5k-i 





е- 



r 5 ^-i 





e 



rb"" 





s 



^5k-i 





a 



ylß^ la ylß 



d ^76' 



a yl ^ 



a- ^78, SJ'J") 



yiv. 



a- ^9' 



и ^ 3 J [ 



il ^ 34 eb 



w ^-35 







.X jk 



^0 " 



^76"-' 



^7k 



The uvularized vowels are always followed by one of 

 the uvular consonants (q, rj, r, p); after these consonants no 

 uvularizing takes place; a short vowel before a single r is only 

 mildly uvularized, but a long vowel is aft'ected in the usual 



