118 М’. THALBITZER. 
2) a very faintly articulated and therefore scarcely audible sound, e.g. af, or, т 
(final sounds of many words) or : 
3) an accompanying, minor articulation, е. g. labialization as in “n, п’, more exactly 
en, nn: ®k or ”k®, РК or ЕК; i. e. n or k pronounced with accompanying 
movement of the lips. 
Two small types, one superposed over the other, indicate either 1) an indefinite 
cross between the two sounds whose acoustic character it has been impossible to 
determine more definitely in writing down the text, or 2) a really alternating use of 
the two sounds. 
$ 9. The East Greenland system of sounds. — 
Consonants. Vowels. 
Uvula, Back | Point | Lip Uvula| Back |Mixed| Front 
Nasal 1] 1 n m | Voiced I | I 1 | Unrounded 
zl i | High | | 
Closed q k | ©. т | р Unvoiced CR TE DÖ | ll Rounded 
RER a 7 IE a él E | | | @ Unrounded 
, | о № | 
i LEE UP Aer и oO | о v Rounded 
Open [SS —= = DR, ser 
| R S uyoissc A | @ | a a | Unrounded 
h | | | (aspirated) Low | 
. Se ee Pr | ‘Dina | Rounded 
Consonants. 
5 10. — n, voiced as a nasalized 4, or a mixture of г and y. It 
does not belong to the most common sounds, but still in East Green- 
land it is much more frequent in final and intervocalic position than 
in Northern Westgreenland. (Phon. Study pp. 79, 188—-189 and 201); 
e. g. it is almost a rule in the 3rd person singular in the indicative of 
the verbs, but slightly voiced only and without escape of breath in 
the off-glide, thus -pon, -won in contradistinction to WGr. -род, -wogq. 
Intervocally it is found e. g. in peniwa, ‘a stone used for weighing 
down with, a weight stone, a heavy stone’ = periwa, WGr. perua. 
$ 11. — q is a uvular tenuis, very common in EGr. as in WGr. 
(Phon. Study рр. 75—76, 188—191, 210 etc.), but, when it is short, 
generally quite loosely articulated in EGr. It is often changed into r 
or the voiceless R when used finally, likewise in intervocal position 
after a weak syllable, e. g. 
E Gr. perarter — WGr. peqartog, ‘being at hand; present, existing.’ 
» ImarRa — » тада, ‘would that” (Lat. utinam). 
>) обо — » 000% ‘а petting song; lullaby.’ 
» garorlarulerarter (or gagorlaqulegarteg), ‘one with grey hairs on his chin, 
a greybeard.’ 
In all these cases, q first passes into в and it depends on indi- 
vidual tendency and casual pronunciation whether this R is voiced; 
