396 



ad pp. 190—191 etc. 

 By t-ç I desijrnate a single uncombined palatal sound partly 

 articulated with the blade of the tongue, the point of the tongue 

 remaining passive. In the beginning in my notes on East Green- 

 landic I sometimes used tjs to designate the same sound. 



pp. 188—189 etc. 

 /• designates a voiceless r, that is, about the same as p 

 but without the strong aspiration that characterizes the latter 



sound. 



ad p. 186 and 196—197 (g 31). 



After this section had been printed 1 was informed that 

 at about the same time the printers had on hand an article 

 by Pastor Schultx-Lore ntze n: "Eskimoernes Indvandring i 

 Grönland" (The Immigration of the Eskimo into Greenland), an 

 article intended for publication in "Meddelelser om Grönland" 

 Vol. XXVI. In this work we have for the first time a closer 

 investigation of a dialect-division on the southern part of the 

 west coast, namely at Godthaab. All along the coast south of 

 this colony we find the unrounded vowels i and p — just as in 

 East Greenlandic — in all those words which in the territory 

 north of this colony have и and o. Cf. my dialect survey 

 pp. 196—197. 



ad pp. 22 8 — 2 29 (g 32). 



It was not until after I had written this that I came across 

 F. Boas's Notes on the Eskimo of Port Clarence in Journ. 

 Amer. Folk-Lore, Vol. VII (1894). Port Clarence is situated 

 in Alaska at the narrows of Bering Strait, accordingly some- 

 what farther north than those Eskimo whose language В a m um 

 has described. In the language-specimens given by Boas here, 

 the uvular tenuis occurs just about as frequently as in Boas's 

 specimens of the East Eskimo language. Here I find written 

 umiaq, qayaq, qipik (blanket), kapitaq (watertight), nirijoq (eating), 

 a^qUik (mittens), nanuq (polar bear), aniaq (woman), etc. We have 

 therefore everv reason to believe that as far as this sound is 



