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33. kanajdq^ — kanas'uf^ 



34. kattidq^ — kanis'ut- or kanisut^ 



35. ptriajuat'^ — pcriasut^ 



36. nujup'ut^ — ?nnsup'a'^ 



37. -juip-dq'' — -suip'dq'' 



38. -7"iijiip'dq^ — ^-rusiqrdq^ 



39. qarajaq^^ — qarasame^^ 



40. cf. also HKJaiq^- — tiutsät^-, where, however, an extra- 

 neous sound seems to have come in and prevented the change 

 of j to s. 



Most of the sound-changes here given are confined to the 

 words and forms mentioned. The change of ^ to s between 

 î"s is very common; the change of q to r between vowels 

 is — in INorth Greenland at least — a rule without excep- 

 tions. In South Greenland, qanoq-ip-it^'^ may occur with the 

 q kept. 



Although these sound-changes are so complete that the 

 different forms are now established in the language, yet in the 

 living language there may still occur little deviations from the 

 normal pronunciation, which may be considered as occasional 

 sound-changes and which are no doubt designated as errors 

 by "correct" speakers. Thus к may now and then be pro- 

 nounced in the place of t { Kleinschmidt Gr. ^ 7 : pujortauk 

 instead of piijortant^^; i^Å-ryk instead of i^Å'u't^^); instead of 

 the ending -mit (ablative) is sometimes heard -mik (instrumental). 

 Almost normal are the changes q '> fl, ^ > '^/i t > n when 

 they occur as finals before a word beginning with a vowel: 



'-' sea scorpion (sing, and plur.) ' the third * three ^ they have 

 moved (themselves) '■ moves it toward himself with a jerk, jerks it to himself 

 ' never " terribly '^ passionately, with lust '""" place-name in O'nfairaq 

 Fjord, in its base-form and in the locative " hair (sing, and plur.) " how 

 are Nuur '* a tobacco-pipe "" a sling. 



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