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this name where there were only kutäPut. The men at the 

 colony and those farther south at Proven whom I spoke with 

 did not belong to this class, but there was an old woman at 

 üpernawik whose language I tested according to my phonetical 

 lists and whom I found to be in high degree kutätoq; most 

 of the examples of this kind of pronunciation given in the 

 following survey are taken from her language. 



The most characteristic feature is the difficulty in articu- 

 lating with the innermost organs , which results in the substi- 

 tution of к for q and the loss of the uvularization before a 

 consonant. On the whole, all the back sounds are articulated 

 farther front than is customary among those who speak cor- 

 rectly; the vowel a often sounds like [äj\. 



The Upernawik dialect exists alongside of these peculiar- 

 ities, perhaps independent of them, perhaps partly influenced by 

 them. At all events, the peculiarities which are characteristic of 

 the kutät-oq language seem to belong to the Greeniaridic child- 

 language in general rather than to this special district*). 



Normal Ä;w^ä^02'Greenlandic 

 North Greenlandic at Upernawik 



\q ^ k\ \qajd.q] ^ [kajak] * 



[qim-^q] ^ [kim-ik] '^ 



[qщ'д^vsuщ\ ^ \как-д:8ищ\ ^ 



\<j^a'^' A'unoxsuit] * [käHuna'suit] ■* 



') The native Eskimo "pastor" in Upernawik, Tobias Morch , has very 

 kindly taken the trouble to ап8л\ег an inquiry which 1 made con- 

 cerning kuint'ut, and I take the libert> of quoting his answer here: 

 "All Greenlanders", he ■writes, "are not kutät'ut, but only a few. 

 kutät'ut have been thus from childhood. Most of those who have been 

 so while thev were little are no longer thus when they are 9 — 10 years 

 old, but some people are kutätut both when they are small and whea 

 they are grown-up. It is not only up here that there are kutät'ut-^ 

 there are also such persons in Oommcmnaqi District and at Egedes- 

 minde, as I have myself seen and heard". 



' boat ■' dog ' large mountain '' the big Europeans. 



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