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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    the English sound, because the t is nearly interdental. There- fore there is a difference between the 6-sounds in arftsaq a ball, and ndtseq A seal. In other words, an s [s] is heard, which, although not quite identical with the 5 or,/of the phoneticians, as in English she, bears some resemblance to it; e. g., aaseet [a:se:t\ (West Greenland) of course oaFsaq {a:^s(yq\ summer saa [so.‘] its front In the articulation of this s, not only the blade, but the whole anterior portion of the surface, is raised; the blade of the tongue being a little retracted and formed like a shallow groove, through which the air escapes without any strong pressure. t as in French, without aspiration, especially before the vowels a and o. taa'^na {da:'^na\ that there tooq \do:q^ a mattock But before i, e, u, often aspirated, especially when the t is long, as in the imperative plural -itte in Northwest Greenland (= -itse in Central and South Greenland). It might be symbolized as r. ar&i a name ndreq the floor or bottom rikeq forefinger arerpoq he goes down tdTTit the lakes (nearly like The articulation of t is very different from that of the English t, the tip of the tongue being stretched against the lower edge of the upper teeth. The Eskimo t, like the n, I, i, are alike in this respect, being sometimes nearly interdental. T see t; see c. u like oil in French jour, rouge. uFFa there! una he (she, it) u between o and w stands for long ^l [«.']; e. g., kook \kuuk^ river oommannaq \u:m:dn:Aq\ common place-name w is the voiced sound that corresponds to f, articulated alike, the lips hardly touching each other; but in cst Greenland often so that the under lip is slightly drawn toward the upper front teeth. It differs from the English in that the lips are §2