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they also appear in all the sulüx-lormatiüns and derivations 

 which go back to the words in question. 



Beyond these cases, the phonetical differences between the 

 Labrador language and Greenlandic are not great. When the 

 Labrador grammar and dictionary frequently has w«, mng^ ps, 

 vl etc. where the Greenlandic orthography (Kleinschmidt) has 

 f», vng^ i/S, vdl etc., it is certainly nothing but a case of 

 orthographical variation. "Often w, p^ v is scarcely heard", 

 says Bourquin (Or. §9i; ngn sounds like nn (§12), perhaps 

 with the preceding vowel nasalized, and kp sounds like pp, 

 kt like tt. It is just like the relation between the current 

 Greenlandic orthography and the actual pronunciation. 



As far as the sound-system is concerned, the Labrador 

 dialect seems to be more nearly related to the South 

 Greenlandic dialect than to the TJpernawik dialect and the 

 language on the east coast of Greenland. 



If we now turn our attention farther north to the big 

 Baffin Island, the chief territory of the Central Eskimo, the 

 specimens of the language up there are far more scanty, and 

 from those specimens that we have it is difficult to get at 

 more than very few of the peculiarities of this dialect. 



There are two peculiarities which are very marked. In the 

 first place, many words in the Baffin language are by Boas 

 spelled with dj (tj, j\ where Greenlandic has s. Ex.: 



Bf. igdluqdjuaq — Gr. iA'ors'uaq big house 



» qaudjaqdjuq — >. ka'sds-uk (a name) 



•> qaqdjung — » qwrs-oq an arrow 



» tuktuqdjung — » *tut'us-uk ursa major (in Gr. merely tut'o, 



lit. a reindeer, but also used for the constellation) 



« usujang — Gr. usws'aq the projection of the stem (in an 



umiak or kajak) 

 ." angijo — ■» uriiso'q big 



■ tingmitjet — •> tinvis-ät birds 



