126 W. THALBITZER. 
act as an angakok’ (with a short А), cf. WGr. anak:oqg With a long К. 
Inversely EGr. has often got a lengthened vowel (anak-e-q) as against 
WGr. short vowel (-k:oq). 
$ 32. — Constantly short are the voiced oral consonants: г, g, J, I, 
4 and w. In the course of the inflection or suffixation of the words 
these sounds, in consequence of the moving of the stress, undergo a 
eradation by which they are lengthened and aspirated as follows: 
Base Mutation Examples (E Gr.) 
ds SEN > га [49| ateréq (or ateq) ‘jaw’ in plural alerqil 
q > АКК  ke-rsagäk ‘eaplin’ » » kersåk:dt 
J > C8 (eg nujäk ‘hair (on the head)’ » »  nuc'sûl 
ры } > litt er] pulawon ‘creeps in’ in derivation pul'ale ‘trap’ (WGr. puL:åt) 
Ww > pp |p| twerpa: ‘pursues him in a drum-fight’ > {p'ip'0m ‘has set out on 
a drum-fight’ 
We find the same mutation in the EGr. dialect in those cases 
where, in the WGr. dialects, we have long open consonants (gemin- 
ated fricatives namely в’, x’, s:, x, Fr‘), for these, in EGr., are changed 
to closed or semiclosed consonants (tenues), as exemplified above 
under the respective sounds (q, k, c, t, p). — A reservation must, 
however, be made with regard to rq where the original в: is some- 
times retained in EGr. where, for instanee, I could record forms 
(possibly sporadically in the speech of certain individuals) such as 
lar:itine beside tarqit-ine ‘hiding’; tara: beside taq:a: ‘a reflection of 
him in the water.’ — Further, while WGr. rz has become rt in EGr., 
and rs most frequently rc, the WGr. rr has sometimes become — not 
rp as might be expected — but rq, especially so in the South dialect 
(cf. under g, $ 11, footnote) less frequently or perhaps never in the 
Ammassalik dialect (o'narge ‘lamp’ < o:narrik?). 
Assimilation. 
S 33. — The peculiar formations of the Ammassalik dialect are in 
many instances due to an extinction of some sounds and to the 
breaking up and fusion of the remaining sound-associates caused 
thereby. After the wild whirl of the Dance of Death come the peace 
and new-creation of the assimilations; too often the new formation 
has changed its countenance and bears no resemblance to its origin. 
In the Eskimo language this constantly repeats itself: the more 
westerly formations are the more conservative, the East dialects are 
ever disposed to hatching out metamorphoses. In East Greenland this 
tendency reached its culmination, and I shall here present some 
typical instances from the Ammassalik dialect. 
