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in addition to the sound that it generally stands for in our 

 languages. 



At Point Barrow, the northern coast of America makes a 

 curve toward the south in the direction of Bering Strait. There 

 is much to indicate the appearance of new phonetical tendencies 

 along these coasts. 



As far as the northwestern part of Alaska is concerned 

 laround Point Hopei, I owe a good deal of my information to 

 Well's and Kelly's Collection of Words. As for the southern 

 part of the west coast two grammars are known to me: A. 

 Schul tze's "Grammar and Vocabulary of the Eskimo Language" 

 etc. (18941 and F. Barn urn s "Grammatical fundamentals of the 

 Innuit Language as spoken by the Eskimo of the Western Coast 

 of Alaska" (1901). The latter, which also contains a vocabulary, 

 deals especially with the Eskimo language that is spoken along 

 the coasts of Norton Sound, the delta of the Yukon River and 

 the mouth of Kuskokwim River, and it contains a good deal 

 of interesting information about those dialects which may also 

 serve to cast new light on the eastern dialects. But unfor- 

 tunately the phonetical continuity with the eastern dialects is 

 broken ofif just here at a couple of critical points, or rather I 

 cannot see the continuity. This is due to the fact that in 

 spite of the great number of symbols that he uses, the author 

 does not succeed in giving the uninitiated a clear idea of 

 the actual pronunciation of the language, simply because his 

 description of the phonetical value of the symbols used is so 

 imperfect. Such imperfection was of less significance when it 

 was the nearer dialects that we had to deal with than it is in 

 the case of this distant dialect. Although undoubtedly a pure 

 Eskimo language, yet this .Alaska dialect contains so many 

 words of unknown or unrecognizable origin that it is often 

 difficult to find certain parallel forms corresponding to Green- 

 landic words. 



