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In these examples, we have in reality only a special form 

 of the phonetical phenomenon treated above. The western 

 dialects — including the Mackenzie dialect — show an unassim- 

 ilated combination of a front consonant with the uvular q 

 (written k]\ in the eastern dialects, these consonants have 

 become assimilated*), tq has here passed into rg, i. e. [''g-'], 



Id the Greenlandic [to"'(£it] the plural of [tupQq'i, a tent, the remains 

 of the p, which have been preserved, have hindered the uvularization 

 of the vowel. Yet I have also heard [t'irqit] in Greenlandic, with com- 

 plete loss of the labial. — The Mackenzie Dialect has tuppkpeit. 



NAl. [tq] 

 itka vent 

 mitko 



NWAl. [tq] 



mit'koon a hair 

 mit^kooh needle 



SWAl. [Åq] [tq] etc. 

 itVhrä his entrance 



min^kun needle 



sHtkwuna 



chîs%oka my knee 

 chîng^kok it crackles 



yiukutko 



etik^kook the little finger 



ikkilthkoa his 1, f. 



atka 



oPkuh name 



at^ra his name 



aHtkati 



otkot'eka my mittens 







tû'tkûn 



tatkeh moon 



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nätrok boot sole 



pot*ka its marrow 



kalth-ki^djet shot (for 

 shooting) 



pätSk marrow 



