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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    not rounded and there is no raising of the back surface of the tongue, w is the [ft] of the Association phonetique interna- tionale (Passy, 1. c., § 210; Jespersen, 1. c., § 125). awaa the back part of the head satoik iron, knife X the p of the Association phonetique internationale, see under c. It stands also for the x of the Association (Passy, I. c., § 221;. Thalbitzer I, 86-87). axxertoq (Central and South Greenland, Labrador) approaching u between [«] and [y] in French jodk and rue, German fkuh; mid- vowel with slight lip-rounding. Occurs especially between s, w,y, for examjile: toyosunnip'poq it is sweet (to taste) toosmt a beam of the house nujiiittoq tame, not shy ituippoq goes across Y is related to w as / to i, u to u. Sima [Smrt] what tuttut [tYttYt] reindeer z voiced s, occurs rarely, if ever, in the Eskimo dialects (Thalbitzer I, 209, 215). §3. Accent and Quantity In the Eskimo language two or more long sounds may follow each other in a word without being shortened. Every sound of the lan- guage, whether consonant or vowel, may be short or long (geminated), apart from the fact that the voiced consonants, in case they are length- ened, become unvoiced (the nasals only excepted). The combination of the sounds being thus entirel3’^ independent of their quantity, four types of combinations are possible, and do occur (the same, e. sf., as in Finnish): (1) Short vowel -f- short consonant, as in nuna land. (2) Short vowel -f long consonant, as in manna this. (3) Long vowel + short consonant, as in maane here. (4) Long vowel -f long consonant, as in maanna now. §3