Volume 1

Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others].

  • Franz Boas
Date:
1911-
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Credit: Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas ; with illustrative sketches by Roland B. Dixon ... [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Southwest Alaska am'ini I'oVanun \amivi qoL . . . ] above the door (Nelson, tale from St. Michael, Norton sound, in “Eskimo of Berin^f Strait”); cf. Greenland ammip qulaanut above the skin Southwest Alaska nunam of the land (Barnum, 9), cf. Greenland ti'unap [In Baffin land both p and m occur in the same way as ?’>y, R>y^ t>n^ are found. See p. 985, and note 1, p. 987.—F. B.J m > w or Labrador ininaq Ballin land taimna Baffin land imna (Boas IT, 348) Baffin land uvamnule hut to me {ihid.) North Alaska uiLmnun \;uamnun\ (Ray 56) Southwest Alaska kumlok Southwest Alaska pekilmkin mine thou art Gr. i'^nnaq steep declivity Gr. taaFna that one Gr. i^na that Gr. uway^nimt to me Gr. ^i'U'd'^7in'ut to me Gr. ku'^LLoq thuml) (Tr. ■piya^kkit 1 have thee l> {f)>'iv or Greenland (Egede, 1750) ihlit Greenland (Egede, 1750) illipse Labrador (nowadays) igvit Labrador uihvak Baffin land taij)koa Mackenzie river tapkoa North Alaska kdblun Greenland (Egede, 1750) kahlo Greenland (Egede, VI50) kahlunak Mackenzie river kpaptgi Southwest Alaska kafchin {qdFcin\ Southwest Alaska 'chupplu Southwest Alaska 'ajyi'un main trail, regular passage Mackenzie river (coast of Fludson bay) nippiakkiak Gr. (1900) 'iiLit thou Gr. (1900) i'l'O^sse you Gr. (1900) ihLit thou Gr. (1900) u'lFFaq a fern Gr. taa'^koa those ,, [qaPLL'ut or , Gr. r. , eyebrow XqaLLut J Gr. qdhLunaaq European 'Gr. qd^ssit how many Gr. su^LLoq tube Gr. a^qqiit or aTqqut pathway Gr. niwiarsiaq girl § 6. Shifting of Voiced and Voiceless Fricatives It is a characteristic feature of the Greenland language, and prob- abl}'^ of the Eskimo language as a whole, that no voiced consonant occurs which is long (geminated), with the sole exception of the nasal consonants, m {ammit skins), n {anneq the greatest one), y {lyyik §G