Eskimo-Aleut languages/isoglosses

Inuit dialects

Under generation from Eskimo-Aleut_languages/vocab.

• ɫp ɫk → tp tk: Inupiaq →
• c:
  • Seward→ s/z (qalaziq, uzi, teziq; but atausiq, pingasut)
  • Qawiaraq → ch, Malimiutun → sr, Sirenik & Sib. Yupik & North Slope westw. → s
• Seward & Al. Yupik: k → g / u_u, i_i
• rj → rr, ks → ksr: Inupiaq-Qawiaraq-Uummarmiutun
• s → h: Uummarmiutun, Inuinnaqtun-Natsilik-Kivalliq, North Greenlandic (fed by ts → s!)
  • Natsilik retains *ks
  • Uummarmiutun, Inuinnaqtun: ph → ff
• n → t / _#: Natsilik → (plural also Inuinnaqtun)
• ng → k / _#, tp tk tq → pp kk qq: Aivilik → (except Nunavik tq → rq?)
• pk → kk: Baffin →
• ngn gl → nn ll, pt → tt, ks ps → ts: S Baffin-Nunavik-Labrador, West (or South?) Greenlandic (pt insecure)

• Inuinnaqtun:

• North Baffin
  • *pt, *ps → ss (via *tt, *ts?)
  • "4" tisamat (pro *sitamat)
  • "groundhog" siksi (pro *siksik; typo?)
  • "girl" niviaqsaaq (pro *niviaqsiaq; typo?)
  • 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)

• North Greenlandic: ll → dd, ps → ss, ks → kh → gh
• South Greenlandic: au → aa, fortition rv → rf
  • West Greenlandic
    • ts → ss
    • 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
  • East Greenlandic
    • Medial loss: v → ∅
    • Medial lenition: g t k q g → ŋ l g r / V_V (except nukaq, hypercorrection? *qulit → qutit)
    • rf → rp, ff ll → pp tt