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this hypothesis there is among other things the fact that the 

 Ammassalik language — the eastern branch of the group — in 

 at least a couple of the words that have been communicated to 

 me has j instead of s, for example in the common adjectival 

 suffix -kajik evil, bad (S Gr. -kasik). The Eskimo of Smith Sound 

 have voiced s [z] here, I think (cf. p. 215). If these northernmost 

 dialects (including that of Upernawik) have originally belonged 

 to one and the same group, they have gone different ways with 

 respect to this sound since their separation. Before their separa- 

 tion, however, it is probable that they have had this j. 



The case is analogous to that of those words where SGr, 

 has ts (nätseq a seal) M Gr. t-, UpGr. s-, E Gr. t' or tç{tjs), L.ts 

 or tj, Al. tj (cf. g 31, pp. 190—192 and § 32, pp. 205—208). 

 Here too L. and SGr. agree, whereas the northernmost groups 

 in Greenland not only deviate from these but also from each 

 other. — Finally there are a couple of words in which all WGr., 

 so far as I know, has s* {täs'a,mas-a)^ where EGr. has ts and t-, 

 L. tj itamadja) and ^' (tagga)*), and the western dialects dj. 



I shall give a survey of these sound-changes in the differ- 

 ent dialects, as shown in the examples in the previous sections 

 (gg 31 — 32), but it must be remembered that the correspond- 

 ence between the sounds is not absolute, j in one dialect, for 

 instance always corresponding to s in the other; on the con- 

 trary, in many words j occurs both in L. and Gr. ; not every 

 t in L. has become s in Gr. and so on. Besides my sources 

 are so scanty that t have not often succeeded in getting in- 

 formation about one and the same word in all the dialects. The 

 table is therefore on several points of purely temporary value. 



Al. and M. 



L. 



J 

 t 



Bf. 

 J 



MGr. SGr. 



EGr. 



J 

 s 



UpGr. 



J 

 t 



s 

 s 



s 

 s 



(;"(Ф"?) 



ts, ts 



tj, ts 

 ts 



t,dj? 

 ts? 



t', s ts, s- 

 s- 



ts, t- 



s; V 

 s- 



•) Cf. Bourquin Esk. Gr g 192. 



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