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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    probably through an intermediate g, is a shift well known in the Greenland grammar; e. g., Singular Plural Possessive TiiLhik boundary kiLhiyit kiLhiya its boundaiy tooLLik loon tooLhiyit rtsSd'X; picture, portrait amiyit as,nya his portrait The older g, from which the y developed, may be traced in the long vowel in the plural of such words as tnannik egg, plural man- aeet, probabl}'^ <mannigit (Thalbitzer I, 250). The shifting from terminal k to y is known in many other dialects. y appears as a final sound in nearly all the dialects, excepting those of West Greenland, Labrador, and Mackenzie river; but most of the dialects that pi'esont forms with o) abound in examples of other words ending in k. We get the impression that either the speakers’ own pronunciation must have been somewhat fluctuating on this point, or else the recorders must have vacillated in their interpretation of the sounds heard. BafHn land saviy\ West Greenland and Labrador savi'k knife Baffin land inuy\ M est Greenland and Labrador man, etc.; (^ypassim in Baffin land); but also— Baffin land (Boas IV, 47); West Greenland and Labrador eqalvk salmon Baffin land tjaxodluk {ihid. Ill, 127); West Greenland and Labra- dor qa<pi,LLuk fulmar Baffin land kouk {ibid. IV); West Greenland and Labrador kook river [The difterences in pronunciation in Baffin land are individual differ- ences. In 18b4 the old men from the east coast of Cumberland sound used throughout the oral stops; while women and young men used nasalized consonants. It seems that the nasalization is in this case due to an extension of the characteristic pronun- ciation of women to the male sex.—F. B.] Smith Sound qopanung [qoj)anuy\ Smith Sound mavLuy or maqqoy Point Barrow 'madnvin {-viij\ I oint Barrow vjarun \;i(jaraij\ Point Barrow -win [wiy] Greenland qupaht, {arsiC) spar- row Greenland mavLLuk two Greenland marLoreek twins Greenland ujarak a stone Greenland -vik place (suffix) §4