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to the vocabulary in Ray’s Report on the Point Barrow Expedition.
The following examples will serve to show the similarity of the
flexional endings with those from Greenland. But the peculiar signification
of the nominal participle is here still more distinctly indicated than
in the Mackenzie.

Point Barrow Greenland
(nominal participle)

I am hungry kaktungä kâgpunga (— tunga)

Thou art — kaktutin — putit (— tutit)

Ye are — kaktuse — puse (— tuse)

He is — kakto — poq (— toq)

Let him come! kaili! kaile!

Come in! isarin! iserit!

I sleep siniktungä sinigpunga (— tunga)

Thou sleepst — tutin — putit (— tutit)

He sleeps — tuä — poq (— toq)

As he slept sinigmut siningmat

Art thou asleep? sinikpi? sinigpit?

Is he asleep? — pa? — pa?

The grammatical notes given by Veniaminow on the Kadjak
dialect are very trifling. However they contain an example of
conjugation; it represents the stem: tiguvâ he takes it, and evidently exhibits
a confounding of forms partly from this verb, partly from the
half-transitive tigusivoq (tgoma and tgotschichka!).

Particles.

To this class belong words which, except in a few instances,
have lost their flexibility or remained inflexible, and at the same time
differ from the interjections by being inapplicable save in connection
with other words, although in some cases this distinction is not to
be drawn sharply. They are divided into added and independent
particles.

The added particles must always be appended to other words.
From the affixes however they differ by a less intimate coalescence
with the main word, especially in permitting this to be inflected
independent of the addition. The most common are: lo and; le but;
taoq also; lûmît or, even; me indeed, to be sure; toq expressing a
desire; lusôq like; gôq one says.

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Point Barrow		Greenland (nominal participle)
I am hungry	kaktungä	kâgpunga	(— tunga)
Thou art —	kaktutin	— putit	(— tutit)
Ye are —	kaktuse	— puse	(— tuse)
He is —	kakto	— poq	(— toq)
Let him come!	kaili!	kaile!
Come in!	isarin!	iserit!
I sleep	siniktungä	sinigpunga	(— tunga)
Thou sleepst	— tutin	— putit	(— tutit)
He sleeps	— tuä	— poq	(— toq)
As he slept	sinigmut	siningmat
Art thou asleep?	sinikpi?	sinigpit?
Is he asleep?	— pa?	— pa?