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b:	a labialized sound between b and v.
d:	as in English "had".
e:	as in French "été".
ᴇ:	an e before r and q, articulated back in the mouth.
f:	a bilabial sound between f and v.
g:	as in English "begin".
g:	as in German "regen".
χ:	as in German "ich".
h:	as in English "half".
i:	as in French "ici".
ı:	an i before r and q, articulated back in the mouth.
j:	as y in English "yard".
k:	as c in French "cas".
q:	a sound far back in the mouth, behind the root of the tongue, almost as when hawking. Peculiar to all Eskimo dialects.
l:	as in English "long".
ʟ:	unvoiced l.
m:	as in English "man".
n:	as in English "no".
n:	corresponds to ng, as in English "king".
o:	as French "eau".
ɔ:	before r and q, as in English "for".
p:	as in English "poor".
r:	almost as in English "sister".
R:	almost as ch in Scotch "loch".
s:	as in English "sing".
ʃ:	almost resembles sh, as in English "shilling".
ʒ:	a sound between s and j, as in French "je".
t:	as in French "été".
c:	a sound almost as a mingling of t and s.
u:	as in English "poor".
v:	as in English "love".
w:	like the English w:

A dot after a sound means that it is long, for instance a·, m· etc.; an apostrophe after a syllable signifies the glottal stop or stress, for instance har'waptɔ·rmiut qᴇqᴇr'taq, etc.

In working up the philological material I have in this as in the previous volume had a skilled, interested and patient collaborator in the Rev. Hother Ostermann.