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.

    989/1088 (page 977)
    DAGE, viGE. Central and South Greenland, East Greenland, Labrador, Mackenzie river, g occurs rarely in the northern part of West Greenland instead of y. The corresponding voiceless sound is x or partly g. iga (South Greenland), iya (North Greenland), a pot h is heard sometimes in interjections. i high narrow vowel (Bell and Sweet), as in French fini. ittaq many years ago ihLit thou / between i and 6, especiallj' before w, ???, y. inaa [ma.-] its (the bird’s) nest j like y in yard, or likey in German ja. ajaa his aunt pujoq smoke q^ u, and n are uvular consonants, so called because they are articu- lated at the uvula. The posterior part of the velum and the root of the tongue are drawn back and up toward the back of the fauces, whereby the space in that part of the mouth seems to become larger, j is a stopped voiceless consonant (tenuis), probably identical with the qof of the Arab (Passy, l.c., §189). qaqqaq [qAq:Aq'\ mountain arqa \Aq;a\ his name erqaane [Eqa:ne\ in the vicinit}’- k as in French cas without aspiration; only befoi-e ^, e, and u, it may be heard aspirated. kaapoq he is hungry (pronounce k like voiceless y), but keewaa it bit him (more like [kge;wa:]) I and L are articulated nearly alike, .bilaterally, with the tip of the tongue against the back of the upper teeth. They have the latter feature in common with the Eskimo t and n. The voice- less I [ij is of rare occurrence in Indo-European languages, but it IS well known from many other languages both in ^ America {Ih of the Nahuatl, I of Kwakiutl) and in Africa. ila certainly ulo woman’s knife izLo house avLuk grampus L, see 1. 44877°—Bull. 40, pt 1—10 02 §2