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babilily also to indicate an uvuiarized e. There is no reason 

 to doubt the occurrence of nmost of the sounds of tlie Green- 

 landic sound-system. The only difficulty is connected with 

 those sounds which have shown a tendency to vary in the 

 dialects previously examined, first and foremost the fricatives 

 (the open consonants). With respect to the occurrence of 

 voiced stopped consonants — they are always given as existing 

 — I am rather inclined to believe that where they are given, they 

 are only meant for unaspirated unvoiced stopped consonants 

 ("unvoiced è, d^ g"]. — 1 consider it certain that Ray intended 

 his symbol x to stand for the uvular [/] in e.xamples like 

 NAl. atndxo wolf — Gr. amar'oq 



» taxaio salt — » tarajoq 



» d\lo killer-whale — » arXiik 

 There might be some reason to suppose that when he 

 uses this symbol in no\a (caribon, fawD>, it here stands for 

 the aspirated, that is unvoiced fricative [/>], for Gr. has nop'aq. 

 If that is the case, we should expect the same conditions in 

 the word that corresponds to Gr. tap-aq (a reflected image, a 

 shadow-picture), but here Ray has NAl. tdga'*. Is this an ortho- 

 graphical whim, or is there really a difference of pronunciation? 

 Somewhat similar is the case in NAl. nûg'lug'rua (goose), which 

 corresponds to Gr. nerÅeq, plur. nerÀerit] we might have 

 expected x instead of g'. — Does the unvoiced fricative [^] 

 occur? It is found in Greenlandic ti^'aq (a he-seal); for this 

 word, Ray has NAl. thgun which I read as [tir^ari] or [tirkat/]. 

 Neither is there any urgent reason to assume the ;>'-sound in 

 NAl. sigo (beak or bill), which in Greenlandic has the form 

 si-cuk. For the present at least I shall assume that the sound 

 is not found in this dialect. — The unvoiced fricative [/] un- 

 doubtedly occurs, cf. NAl. ködlö (lamp) — Gr. quÅ'eq; NAl. 

 ftid'lin (white billed loon) — Gr. tu'À'ik. — The unvoiced frica- 

 tive [f\ does not seem to occur. Ray writes NAl. åk'bwtik 

 (whale), cf. Gr. ar(peq\ NAl. séakbwûk (sea-pigeon) — Gr. seiyaq 



