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As for the vowels, we find occasionally / for n (ujiriiluq 

 or rather [aj'i'^riilaq] for ajuri-ilaq]. it is said to be more fre- 

 quent than elsewhere {perqu"Ào7io for perqii" Xotio etc.)*). On 

 the whole, the vowels seem to become more strongly fronted 

 and palatalized than farther south. 



These peculiarities of the Ujjernawik dialect present them- 

 selves in a strange light on account of the fact that the kutätut 

 phenomenon is especially common in this part of Greenland 

 (cf. g 30). The organs of speech here seem to have a special 

 tendency to a childisli pronunciation of the words. 



About the language at Cape York, only very little is 

 known. The people at Upernawik who have had an opportunity 

 to meet with them on expedition ships, say: "We understand 

 them very well and use the same language, yet theirs is some- 

 what strange iimmikki(t), and when they talk together rapidly 

 with each other, we cannot understand them". It seems as if 

 they in several cases have j, or a similar voiced sound, for s**). 

 Furthermore it appears from the lists of words that they almost 

 regularly in the final position have tt for t, ri for Â", also per- 

 haps sometimes 'q for q***\. I have not otherwise met with this 

 in isolated words in the present West-Greenlandic language, 

 but only in connected speech, when t and к occur between 

 two vowels {su't i(ko > .З'уп-ико^)). 



All in all. then, there seems to be some difference between 



*) M. Morch: Avangiiâp tungâne oqaiugpalârusiaq (a iiUle accüiinl from 

 North Greenland, from I/, orsuit}, in Atuagagdliutit 1900, no. 2, p. 19. 



'*) Pastor Morch in Upernawik \intes to me: "Those natives of Cape 

 York which Peary brought with him were not kntnttut;" [of. p. 179] 

 "I spoke with two of them who had come ashore ; they spoke like the 

 Greenlanders here, but they pronounced .s indisUnctly. They said uqago 

 takuJHva(/it instead of aqagu takussuvagit (I shall see you to morrow), 

 kijiiHCi instead of kinima (I alonel". 

 ***) When Kroeber writes tuvirny (corresponding to the South Greenlandic 

 txneq, an inhabitant of the inland), this may perhaps be rewritten 

 phonetically as [fnnëî^]- 

 J what (are) thev? 



