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(black guillemot). Cf. NAl. aibwûk (walrus) — Gr. a'weq. 1 sup- 

 pose bw is intended to indicate a loosely articulated bilabial 

 somewhat similar to w — accordingly a voiced sound. 



Thus on the whole the sound-system of this dialect 

 agrees with the sound-system of its neighbor to the east, the 

 Mackenzie dialect. 



With respect to the forms of the words, those words in 

 the Point Barrow dialect whose final sound is consonantal very 

 often end in nasals, a feature which reminds us of the Baffin 

 dialect. In the Mackenzie dialect, there is a blending of the 

 two tendencies; many, perhaps most, words here end in q and 

 Ä:, just as in the L. and Gr. dialects, but final n always occurs 

 in those words which in the other two dialects end in t. In 

 the NAl. dialect we have ujarun [щагац] (stone), in Gr, ujarak; 

 NAl. imtm (milk) — Gr. im-uk; NAl. tugdlin (narwliale), (лг .tu'^alik\ 

 NAl. kamotin (sledge) — Gr. qamutit, etc. This peculiarity, 

 however, does not appear in all the words ending in к and 

 perhaps not in any of the words ending in q; we find for 

 instance NAl. imeak or imûk (waten — Gr. imeq or imaq, 

 NAl. kmmik (louse) — Gr. kumak etc. 



It is striking how many words have been taken down from 

 this dialect in the form of vowel stems (ending in a vowel), 

 which in Greenlandic end in 5 or A: in the nominative. As 

 examples may serve such words as NAl. k^ûttû (wooden trap- 

 doorway) — Gr. kat-ak; NAl. au (blood) = M. awk — Gr. a'wk] 

 NAl. pau (sod) — Gr. pa""q', NAl. mâkqlûkto (child) — Gr. 

 merlertoq; ^Al. muttakto (naked) — Gr. mat- artoq, etc., thus all 

 the words ending in -to{q), accordingly all the adjectiVal parti- 

 cipial forms. Several examples have already previously been 

 given. This feature is so persistent that it is almost difficult 

 to find examples of words in this dialect that end in the uvular 

 which is so characteristic for the Greenlandic and Mackenzie 

 dialects. And those cases which can be shown are only valid 

 on the condition that the к of the orthography stands for [q] 



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