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M. illiptçi you — Gr. iU'^''S'e 



» kitçime alone — » kisime 



» itçimayoapk to sit, to be located — » is'iamasoq 



or settled 

 » apkputçinepk path — » a'^q-usineq 



[tj — ts] » mtdjicU hair of the head — SGr. nutsät 



How is tc to be taken? V. Henry takes it everywhere to 

 be a "palatal" s [ç] or, as I should designate it, [s] ; from 

 Greenlandic, too, I know a palatal (postpalatalized?) s, the sound 

 which 1 write [ç]. But 1 am inclined to think that Petitot in 

 reality has heard a sound-combination, a ts or something like 

 that with palatal ^-f-Morç), for in the more western regions too 

 we often find words in which these consonants occur together 

 (initial tsh, tsch, also с/г, cf. Barnum Inn. Lang. pag. 2). But 

 now the sound dj as for instance in nudjidt? 1 should have 

 taken it to be a corresponding voiced dz, if Petitot had not 

 separated the two letters dj from the following a by an г; this 

 i is written purposely to prevent dj from being pronounced 

 simply like dz; if the d is produced in the same way as t in 

 Greenlandic, it is almost interdental, and here perhaps palatalized 

 too; then the following ji is more apt to be the voiced front 

 fricative [j] than the blade-point consonant [i]. 



If we now collect the characteristic features of the dialects 

 of Mackenzie, Labrador and Greenland, the Labrador dialect 

 seems to stand between the other two with respect to the 

 sound-system, but yet it resembles South Greenlandic and 

 Middle Greenlandic most, especially if the unvoiced bilabial 

 [<p] should prove to occur In Labrador; the occurrence of the 

 other three aspirated fricatives is certain at any rate. But the 

 Labrador dialect has also some phonetical features which 

 remove it from South Greenlandic and draw it over toward the 

 Mackenzie dialect, especially the occurrence of j^ where Green- 

 landic has [s], and of tj ^ where the Greenlandic sound has 

 branched into Middle Greenlandic ^, South Greenlandic ts, and, 



