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cr*''î['0'q jes is said imhva such a one, thus 

 C7i-'d-[q) immva thus 



and loss of sounds. 



has become a human being, is born inuiaqatiqrt {-?ii't) crowds of human beings 

 born child ine^^'qatцct 



(or runaqitiqct?) 



inimcpa is he (or it) in (in the house)? щегАа^атгк when they had travelled awhile 

 inimt'pa or e^^ertaqamik 



vmcpa — 



кщогпа after that, later on niiviarsiaq unmarried woman, maid 

 ki^e'^'rna ncjarsicrti 



The consonant-system in the dialects of 

 Oommannaq ^^^ï*3 Upernaivik 



Stopped I 



Consonants I 



Open [ 



Consonants I 



(Fricatives) ' 



uvula bacli 



point 



lip 



uvula 



back 



point 



lip 



-q 71 



11 



m 



'1 



Ч 



n 



m 



q к 



t 



P 



9. 



к 



t 



P 



r ^ 



jl 



w 



r 





Jf 



■w 



P 7. 



ÇA 



9 







ç^ 





voiced 

 voiceless 



voiced 

 voiceless 



North of Oommannaq^ then, p- y f are replaced by q' 

 [= rq) k- and p\ Not always, but yet to a great extent t' (South 

 Greenlandic ts) is replaced by s- or .ь-, and likewise in many 

 significant cases, r is replaced by -q and w by ц, this last for 

 instance in the 3 pers. ind. of all the verbs which otherwise in 

 Greenland end in -ivoq, but in Upernaivik in -rioq. 



