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if anything should happen to turn up later that may help to 

 clear up the matter. If it should be established that this uvular 

 sound is almost foreign to the South West Alaskan dialects, 

 so that they, so to speak, rest on a different basis of articula- 

 tion from that of the other Eskimo dialects, it will be con- 

 clusive for our construction of the phonetical development of 

 the present Eskimo dialects. 



§ 33. Assimilations in the East and in the West 

 Eskimo dialects. Through that insight which our previous 

 investigations have given us into the phonetical character of 

 the different Eskimo dialects, we may now feel enabled to 

 undertake a relatively reliable valuation of certain great but 

 constant differences between them, which appear in the ortho- 

 graphical reproductions of the same words from different 

 districts. 



With Greenlandic as our starting-point, we first come to 

 the following groups of marked differences between the Labra- 

 dor dialect and Greenlandic (the brackets, as usual, enclosing 

 my phonetical transcriptions, which , on comparison with the 

 specimen words from the more distant dialects, will show what 

 sound-values I assign to the orthographical symbols in the 

 specimens): 

 Gr. L. 



[rÅ — rq] Gr. iiierXatvoq — L. ingergavoh moves forward 

 Gr. qimerXo'rpa' — L. kemmergova regards it 



[/•/ — o] Gr. marXiih — L. magguk Uso \gg =^[p\^ cf. Bourquin 



Gr. g 6, note) 

 Gr. orÅuwoq — L. ochovok falls down 



[r/ — ^•] Gr. arÅa- the other one — L. aggu two 

 Gr. narÀuwoq — L. naggovok is even 



