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uvula 



back 



blade 



point 



lip 



nasal stop 





Ч 





n 



m 



oral stop 



? 



к 





t 



P 



open 



r 



S 



J dp. 



I 



w 



open 



P'- 





Ç? tQ 



X 





Labrador [r], sometimes also to [g]; his g is [g]; his ^, [/] 

 and [k] ; his y, [У] ; his dj and ^c, [ф] and \tq\ or perhaps 

 ['ç]; he does not seem to have heard any s in the language 

 which exactly resembled his own French s, which seems to me 

 to be very plausible. 1 think I can draw up the following 

 consonant svstem for this dialect. 



voiced 

 voiceless 

 voiced 

 voiceless 



There is the interesting circumstance connected with 

 Petitot's work, that the weliknown French linguist V. Henry 

 has used it as the basis for a sketch of the Innuk language, 

 in which he tries to bring the material in under more scientific 

 points of view than Petitot was able to. It is not my object 

 here to deal with the morphological part of this description in 

 which there are many pertinent remarks of interest not only 

 for the student of the Eskimo language but also for the student 

 of general comparative philology. Here, where only the sounds 

 of the language are under consideration, it will be necessary 

 not only to call attention to the good points of this work, but 

 also to some of the errors into which the author has been 

 misled through the lack of clearness in his source. 



In V. Henry's system of sounds, there are, in part expressed 

 by other symbols, equivalents for all the sounds which I have 

 tabulated, with the exception of X. He specifies, to be sure, 

 two kinds of /, of which the one is the usual "dental" /; but 

 about the other [Ih] he remarks that it is a palatal and voiced 

 /, corresponding to the mid-tongue / of the Slavic languages 



