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in any case it is only lightly voiced. The forms with в or г instead of q 
are indiscriminately synonymous parts of speech, е. g. ogarpon, овагроц, 
orarpon, ‘he says.’ In a final position 4 is often lightly nasalized, 
i.e. it becomes 7, but always only lightly voiced and hardly audible, 
cf. the last example given and qgamip:on == qamip:oq, qamip'or ‘the 
fire is out. Here again the forms are completely equivalent, gram- 
matically, and the exchanging is only of a casual character. The weak 
acoustic effect of the final sounds is due to the lack of “puff of 
breath” (as Sweet has it) in the off-glide.! 
E Gr. rq (q:), often corresponds to WGr. вв, less often to rr!, е. g. 
EGr. ergerpa — WGr. eR‘orpa’ ‘washes it (clothes).’ 
> neq'aja'q — » neR'aq ‘South-wind.’ 
»  tlerqgik = » tlorräk ‘the right side.’ 
$ 12. — г, next to { the most frequent consonant of the language, 
is a uvular fricative (Phon. Study p. 76—79, 188—189 etc.). It is al- 
ways short, appears very often before a consonant (e. g. rp, rm, rt, etc.), 
quite often as a final sound, е. 5. in the verbs -por = WGr. -pog; 
ter = WGr. -toq; cor = WGr. so-q ‘why’, less often in an intervocalic 
position, е. g. putarit = WGr. put-aqut ‘a sealing bladder’; iserama 
(= WGr.) ‘when I entered.’ This sound is voiced, but less strongly 
voiced than we are used to in the Indo-European languages where 
the same sound is found, and far more loosely articulated than the 
French r. — Like q this sound is also at times slightly nasalized, 
so that е. g. periwa, ‘a weight stone’, becomes peniwa (cf. under п). 
In addition its articulation-place is sometimes moved forward in the 
mouth so that we get a transition r > g (examples, see under 4). 
If both of these changes are accomplished we see r changed into 7 
— periwa therefore becomes pepiwa — probably to be looked upon as 
a childish or bad pronunciation (strongly calling to one’s mind the 
kutättog pronunciation known especially from Upernawik in Northern 
WGr., see Phon. Study, pp. 178—180). — г between certain vowels 
WS [0 Goes 
ТА little further south on the East coast and all the way down near Cape Fare- 
well the passing of RF into RQ was far more complete than at Ammassalik. 
From Ittoluartiwin (Kuannias birthplace) to Frederiksdal (== Narssaq) the fol- 
lowing forms were in use: 
SEGr. rq WGr. TE 
imerqik imerfik - ‘water tub.’ 
nunaqarqik nunagarrik ’inhabited place.’ 
ogargiyiwa' ogarrina’ ‘says it to him.’ 
serqaq ser Faq ‘black guillemot.’ 
Kunisarge Kunisarrik ‘the kissing place’ (name of person). 
Joseq JoserFe ‘Joseph.’ 
