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sound-movements whicli are typical for the ÎSorth Greenlandic 

 language as a whole. I proceeded after this manner: as soon 

 as my ear had caught a word in the Greenlanders' conver- 

 sation with each other that I considered especially adapted 

 for this kind of examination, I concentrated all my attention 

 on the memory of what 1 had heard, half thinking and half 

 humming it with the same intonation with which the Green- 

 landers had said it; then comparing it with the a of my tuning- 

 fork, I could estimate its approximate tone-relations. If I have 

 not always been able absolutely to determine the tones, yet the 

 intervals between them are, I hope, correct. • 



Besides what f have thus taken down from bits of every- 

 day conversation which I happened to overhear, 1 have also 

 obtained some specimens of the music of the words through 

 direct experiment (111). For this purpose, 1 used the same 

 Greenlanders as for the experiments in articulation. I asked 

 them to say a certain word or sentence and repeat it again 

 and again. The Eskimo proved quite willing to do this. I 

 tried to separate out the tones of voice from the words, 

 and to avoid thinking of the natural pitch of the single 

 sounds; I imitated their voice without articulating the sounds 

 of the mouth ; then when I thought I was able to sing at 

 least the essential tones which constituted the limits of the 

 musical movements of the voice during tlie pronunciation of 

 the words, I easily found them on a violin, which had been 

 tuned after my tuning-fork, and could write them down directly 

 after the experiment. Of course this group of specimens does 

 not as a rule show as great transitions of tone as the former 

 group, where the life of the language plays a greater part. 

 The words here are pronounced in the quietest and most in- 

 different way, therefore with a minimum of musical swell. — 

 Finally. I have lying before me some rough graphical illustra- 

 tions (IV) of the rising and falling tone-movements in words 

 and sentences which I have heard. 



