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ixaqte a sealskin without any hair on 



eqarte 



erqekte 



ixkotin sea-weed 



equ't 



erklojak (?) 



-lir (suffix) begin 



-1er 



-1er 



aiviq walrus 



a-^iveq 



aivek 



neHiq seal 



nät^eq 



netsek 



tuniq a mythical people 



timeq 



tunek 



imiq water 



imeq 



immek 



axi^girn ptarmigan 



aqiç-eq 



akkigek 



tupirmut to a tent 



tupermut 



tujypek 



saunirn bone 



sa'"'tieq 



sauneq 



Bf. [uq ur up] 



Gr. [o^ or] 



L. [oq or] 



su}qang a whalebone 



sorqaq 



sokkak 



uqsirn a bone ring at the end of a dog-trace 



orseq 



oksek 



ajuniapoq it is difficult 



ajornarpoq 



aj or nar рок 



lixsuq blubber 



orsoq 



orksok 



uxtsuaredlik polar bear 



{oi^soq) 





anure wind 



anore 



annore 



In these words of the Baffin dialect, accordingly, it seems 

 as if the change of г > e and of « > о (or э) has not taken 

 place before the uvular consonants. There are only some few 

 examples of this change in this dialect, as for instance sdrml 

 why, tornit, plur. of tuniq, qerniq black, serdnartoq sour (Gr. 

 and Labr. se-rnartoq) niaxoq head, eqidliq a-mythical people, like- 

 wise the verbal endings -poq, -voq, -toq. 



If we now collect all the information that we have been 

 able to obtain about this phonetical change in the course of 

 the foregoing comparison of the different dialects, we perceive 

 exactly wherein it consists. As we see it, it is a retro- 

 gressive u vularization. In the life of the language itself, 

 it is rather a matter of anticipated uvularizalion. It is the 

 uvular position of the palate, which really ought not to occur 



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