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word is in Greenlandic [q^Å'^eq]. Petitot's pkp is a dilettante 

 roundabout indication of the simple stopped consonant and 

 cannot be mistaken by any one who is familiar with Eskimo 

 pronunciation. This sound is not a special dialectal phenome- 

 non, but the most characteristic consonant of the whole Eskimo 

 language. 



Henry gives in his system, in agreement with Petitot, the 

 three voiced stopped consonants g d b. I do not believe that 

 these sounds occur; il is more probable that the case is the 

 same as in Greenlandic, namely that there are two kinds of 

 unvoiced, unnasalized stopped consonants , one kind that is 

 strongly aspirated and another kind that is only slightly 

 aspirated. — He is surely right when he mentions an unvoiced 

 palatal c, and he is possibly right when he mentions a voiced 

 palatal g\ they must be compared with the tj of the Labrador 

 dialect and the dj of the Baffin dialect. 



Petitot writes kivgapk, where S. Gr. has ki^ip-aq (a servant); 

 I presume the M. form is to be understood as [kiwqaq] with 

 voiced fricatives. The same conditions apply to words like 

 M. killigvapk (elephant fossile) = Gr. kili(p-aq ("the big cutter", 

 a fabulous monster with six or ten legs, cf. Rink*)), M. apvepk 

 or apvapk = Gr. anpeq (a whale) etc. ; here the M. dialect has 

 a voiced fricative w as against unvoiced (p or p in Greenland. 

 Thus it seems as if the voiced fricatives play a more import- 

 ant part in the dialect of the Tchiglites than in Greenlandic. 

 M. ^w rw correspond to Gr. [(p- r<p-'\. — [^] does probably not 

 occur. That short [g] occurs seems to be certain from such 

 a word as M. niijepk (vent de l'est et du nord-est), which 

 certainly must correspond to S Gr. ni^eq (south wind), Up Gr. 

 nirieq. It is worth noticing that Petitot in some cases seems 

 to have used the symbol p (with which he otherwise generally 

 indicates the uvular [r]) to indicate g. At all events it often 



•) Tales and Trad. p. 48. — Eventyr og Sagn. Suppl. p. 190. 



