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common, however, as in South Greenland, having often at Amma- 
ssalik (as in NWGr.) passed into y, е. g. 
EGr. agaye — SWGr. agage ‘to-morrow.’ 
) 000000 = » _qaqugo ‘when? (in the future). 
» 11а — > 104 ‘а ров” 
The usus is wavering in many cases, some using g and others 7 
in the same words; there is a free alternative in the verbal termina- 
tions, е. g. -pugun ‘we’, -tigin ‘us’, -giga ‘I — it or him’ etc.; one says 
anepiga another ay:igiga ‘I concealed it; kept it secret’ (the latter 
form = SGr.); the same applies to many stems of words, one says 
inala’q, another igala:q ‘a window’; igip'a or igip:a ‘(the bee) stung 
him. 9 is used constantly, e. g. in puguk-dt ‘berries’ where the g 
comes from k, the word being formed of WGr. pukup'a: ‘picks berries.’ 
— 9 bears an affinity to г, and is sometimes replaced by it; some, 
for instance, pronounce ke'rsagag, others kersaraq ‘a caplin. — Be- 
tween two Г’$ g is easily dropped, e. g. | 
EGr. Ca == WGr. ao ‘he throws it away.’ 
D EM — »  tiguwa- ‘he takes it.’ 
> CaaS Ca — » (19и$а` ‘a skin-creaser.’ 
> CME = » Igima: ‘flexible bone head of the harpoon shaft.’ 
$ 17. — п is pronounced as in WGr. In final position it often 
neplaces) une Мат. № ve. 5. wen — War tnt you... but in certain 
intervocalic positions the loss of it has caused great disturbances in 
the EGr. language and made many words unintelligible to the West- 
ereenlander who hears this dialect for the first time, е. ©. 
EGr. e' — WC Dank ‘man; human being.’ 
» ear — > weer ‘his dwelling; nest.’ 
» ear — » sina’ ‘its edge, side.’ 
» GED = »  ginerpa ‘looks around, spies.’ 
» CON — »  шегро4 ‘is ready.’ 
Only the short n is dropped in this manner, regularly in a strong 
position after an i(e) in a weak syllable, but never after an a or u, 
as in aniwon ‘goes out, ana ‘her elder brother’, uneq ‘armpit’. Neither 
is the long п ever dropped (thus always in'i-). 
$ 18. — с (unvoiced, mouillé) is a mingling of a palatal ¢ and $, 
at the same time post-dental and prepalatal, a sound I only know from 
the Eskimo language. When long it often takes the place of cs (cs), 
ending as a strongly marked slightly $-holding $ sound; this might 
also be transcribed roughly as 15, but with these three sounds pressed 
together into one long sound with a noisy off-glide. The dividing lines 
between с and с’ on one side and is and cs on the other are not 
easily fixed in the quickly spoken language, and may therefore often 
