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the whole. The sound-changes are classified according to the 

 principle that those are first treated whose place of articulation 

 has remained fixed, thereupon those whose place of articulation 

 has been moved. The consonant changes are given first, the 

 vowel changes last. The sounds, as they are given for each 

 single sound change, are arranged geographically, from north 

 to south, and then east. — As for those forms which 1 myself 

 have not had an opportunity to hear and thus to control, I 

 can only hope that I have not misunderstood my authorities, 

 when I have made use of their examples from the various 

 dialects, and rewritten them in my phonetical transcription. 



My sources for these forms are: 



For the forms from North Greenland (the northern inspec- 

 toral division in Danish West Greenland, comprising the districts of 

 Upernawik, Oommannaq, Jakobshavn and Egedesminde) my own 

 direct notes. 



For the forms from South Greenland older, written sources, 

 among which I may especially mention S. Kleinschmidt's grammar 

 and dictionary (South Greenlandic ; takes up some few dialect forms 

 without stating where they are used). 



For the forms from Gape York (Smith Sound), the Eskimo 

 Nikolai Broberg, with whom I traveled from Upernawik to Godhavn, 

 and who a number of years earlier had come with an expedition 

 ship (Proteus 1881?) to Gape York, where he had spent a year with 

 Sorqaq. Also Dr. Stein's*) and Dr. Kroeber's**) investigations of 

 the Eskimo at Smith Sound. 



For the forms from Ammassalik an East Eskimo woman who 

 had been brought home to Gopenhagen in 1903 — 04 by Joh. Petersen, 

 the colonial manager of that colony. They both gave me much 

 information about the dialect there. Furthermore the missionary 

 P. Rüttel who was in Copenhagen in the winter of 1902 — 03 and 

 who both gave me oral information and placed at my disposal some 

 transcriptions of the language which he had taken down in Ammas- 

 salik. Also Commodore G. Holm's copy of Kleinschmidt's dictionary 

 in which he, with the help of Job. Petersen and of the native school- 

 master Johannes Hansen wrote down a number of East Greenlandic 

 words, especially from Ammassalik***). 



•) In Petermanns MiUeilungen, Vol. 48, 1902. 



*•) Bulletin Amer. Mus. Natur. Hist. XII, 1899. Dr. Kroeber had the oppor- 

 tunity in New York in 1897 — 98 personally to examine six Eskimo from 

 Smith Sound л\'Ьо had been brought home b\ Peary. 



*•*) G. Holm; Den östgrönlandske Expedition, pp. 2191Г. 



