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something, sticks out, ujarak a stone, tajaq bracelet, wristlet, 

 tarajoq (L. tarijok) salt, salt water, pujoq smoke, steam, mi'^ja 

 a gull, naja- [L. najanga) his (younger) sister, qajaq kayak, etc. 



Bourquin (Gr. ^, 8) seems to assume that in the Labrador 

 language too s is the original sound in the words first cited 

 and that the development goes in the direction of a change 

 from s to j. It is possible that a tendency toward analogy has 

 caused the j to spread in the Labrador language, but on the 

 whole it becomes evident on considering more distant western 

 dialects that j is the original and s the secondary sound in 

 the words in question. — That s has the same phonetical value 

 in numerous words in the two languages on hoth sides of 

 Davis Strait it is not necessary for me to prove by examples. 



\k — q\ The Labrador language has q throughout in all the 

 same words where this sound is found in Greenlandic (cf. Bour- 

 quin Gr. g 13 and ^ 5791. Yet Labrador has qikkertaq (islandi 

 as over against Greenlandic qeqertaq. Labrador ko'roq (valleyl 

 agrees with North Greenlandic, where South Greenlandic has 

 qoToq. Elderly people may, however, according to Bourquin, 

 be heard to use q instead of к in these words. — J3ut other- 

 wise, as has been said, the Labrador language fully agrees with 

 Greenlandic as far as the sounds q and к are concerned. 



Quite isolated stands the following case: 



\k—y\ L. aukak, do — farther north (in Labrador?) naukak 

 — ÜpGr. nœha — M Gr. and S Gr. na-ya. 



\rrf] occurs in many words; with respect to the occurrence 

 of this sound in Greenlandic, 1 used to consider it especially 

 North Greenlandic as over against South Greenlandic rn, until 

 I found that Egede in his dictionary gives some forms with 

 nig as NGr. and others as SGr. — Ex.: 



L. tôrnyak the angakoks assistant spirit — SGr. to'niaq — 



NGr. to-rngak (Egede) 

 L. akkorngœnne between — Gr. akortuin-e 



