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few, apparently quite superfluous foreign characters by their
ordinary counterparts, and of restricting the application of
accents and hyphens, which in some works are found obviously
too abundant while in others they are almost wanting.
The Greenland language likes full and plain vowels,
preferring syllables composed of one vowel and one consonant.
Two consonants are not allowed to be combined, unless
susceptible of perfect coalescence. A Greenlander is unable to
insert half vowels, as in the words: bridge, blow, cloud, he will
say: berridge, billow, calloud.
The following list represents the letters adopted by
Kleinschmidt for the modern orthography and their pronunciation:
a like a in «father», sometimes, especially before k and t
like a in «at».
e like e in "represent"; strictly spoken it is only an i,
when this should be placed before a guttural sound or at the
end of a word.
f like f in «if» , or merely as a sharpened v, turning into
a v after a consonant.
g like g in «good».
i like i in «it», or ee in «three».
j like y in «yard».
к (q), called кa, like a very guttural k, something between
g, rk and rkr. As it is the only new character that has been
found necessary for the alphabet, I have preferred to adopt a
q, also proposed by others for this sound.
k, called ke, like c in «can» or ck in «lack».
l like l in «holy».
dl like tl in «softly»», is merely an l sharpened after a
consonant.
m like m in «me».
n like n ni «no».
ng a nasal n.
o like o in «other», is the same to u as e is to i.
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