[Transcriber’s Notes:
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including:
χ (Greek chi, see below)
ā ē ī ō ū (long vowels)
œ (“oe” ligature)
⅔ (only in Figure captions)
All but χ are rare.
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conventionally with _lines_. In the Glossary (only) small capitals are
shown with #marks#.
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.
Missing punctuation in Figure captions and the Glossary has been
silently supplied. Other typographical errors are listed at the end of
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Smithsonian Institution----Bureau Of Ethnology.
THE CENTRAL ESKIMO.
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