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to the end of a conversation, or when he is giving some ex- 

 planation or preparing a new turn in the course of events. 



A woman stood outside of the house and said something 

 to a visitor who was taking leave of her (a fikera-rtoq) ; the 

 flow of talk was pitched at about h or b (the tuning-fork used). 



They call in a high — often in a very high tone, about 

 corresponding to light-hearted laughter. 



in. The combination of tbe sounds. 



§ 24. The transitions and glides between sounds take 

 place in the Greenlandic language in accordance with the basis 

 of articulation described above. As in the case of the tongue, 

 each of the other organs of the mouth has its favorite posi- 

 tion and its favorite movements, which are peculiar to this 

 language and which explain many of the peculiarities of the 

 life of the sounds, the tendency to uvularize or nasalize vowels, 

 to velarize the neighboring vowels, to change g to ^ and r 

 to rii to palatalize к before г, to let t open into an s-Uke 

 groove before г etc. The sound-assimilations also take place 

 on this basis. 



Between two vowels occurring next to each other the half 

 consonantal transition-sounds j and tv are sometimes present 

 and sometimes dropped. Ex. : 



\игщкг\ or [гЛ'агр«*, mvijarpa-] ' 

 [tuawidrjjdq] or \tu"'a'''ihrp'.')q\ - 

 [iX'oa] or \iÅ-o"'a\''^ 

 \um/a\ or \mva7/a\ * 



' he goes (rows etc.) outside of it ^ he hurries ' liis liouse * \, mine. 

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