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Title: The Central Eskimo

Author: Franz Boas

Release date: February 12, 2013 [eBook #42084]
Most recently updated: January 10, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Louise Hope and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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χ (Greek chi, see below)
ā ē ī ō ū (long vowels)
œ (“oe” ligature)
⅔ (see List of Illustrations)

In the main text, all but χ are rare. Long-vowel marks are used in Figure captions and in the Glossary; œ occurs only in scientific terms.

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Orthography is explained early in the article. Modern (ICI) forms should be deducible from Boas’s spellings. These are based on Kleinschmidt, but with q in place of ĸ (kra). Note that long vowels are rarely marked, except in the Glossary and in figure captions. Words are often written with nasalized finals: n for t sometimes, ng for k almost always, irn (only) for iq. Medial q is usually written χ (chi), representing the fricative pronunciation: “Eχaluin” and similar.

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Contents
List of Illustrations

The Central Eskimo

Index

Transcriber’s Notes