Eskimo-Aleut languages/isoglosses

Inuit dialects

Under generation from Eskimo-Aleut_languages/vocab.

• s → h: Uummarmiutun, Inuinnaqtun-Natsilik-Kivalliq, North Greenlandic (fed by ts → s!)
• n → t / _#: Natsilik → (plural also Inuinnaqtun)

• North Baffin (vs. South Baffin)
  • *pt(i), *ps(i) → ss(i) (pro *tt, *ts)
  • "4" tisamat (pro *sitamat)
  • "groundhog" siksi (pro *siksik; typo?)
  • "girl" niviaqsaaq (pro *niviaqsiaq; typo?)
  • South: ngn → nn, gl → ll (shared w. Nunavik ~ Labrador)
  • South: "tree" napaaqtiq (pro *napaaqtuq)
  • lexical:
    • "why" suuq (South innov. sungmat)
    • "where" nauk (South nani)
    • "what" kisu (pro *suna)
    • "older sister" aliqannaq (pro *angajuk)

• Labrador Inuttut (vs. Nunavik)
  • q, r → k, g
  • *Lv → ff, jj → tj
  • rn → nn, rk → kk, rt → tt, rl → ll, rv → vv
  • lr → gg
  • "younger sister" najaatsuk (pro *najak)
  • 1PS uvak (vs. uvaqa)
  • "why" summat (vs. sumut)
  • -i → ik ?
    • "husband" uik (pro *ui)
    • "man" angutik (pro *anguti)
    • "mother-in-law" sakik (pro *saki)
    • "heart" uummatik (pro *uummati)
    • "eye" ijik (pro *iji)
    • "ear" siutik (pro *siut-i)
    • "wind" anugik (pro *anugi)
    • "load" usik (pro *usi)
  • -u → -uk ?
  • "chin" talluk (pro *tallu)
  • "caribou" tuttuk (pro *tuttu)
  • "house" illuk (pro *illu)
  • "no" aukang (vs. naggai)

• South Greenlandic: au → aa
  • West Greenlandic
    • i, u → e, o / _q (short only - except qeeq) (and _r? qimeriaq, nerɫeq, aperi-, anori, anerneq, ulloriaq) (but ahaangiq, pujuq?)
    • also ega pro *iga; but isigak