Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

Steg Belsky wrote:
>
>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:30:36 +0400 Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
>writes:
> > If this the Bulgaria on the Volga, then it appears there are some
> > traits
> > we can surmise, because Chuvash and Azerbaijani show some
> > remarkably
> > close features which can't be genetical, and it appears to be the
> > consensus (here in Russia at least) that they formed some kind of
> > continuum with the Bulgars and the Khazars. If that's what you mean,
> > I can give details.
> > Pavel
>-
>
>Could you give me some details too?
>One of my not-at-all-worked-on conlang ideas is a modern Khazarian
>language, but i haven't found anything at all about the Khazar language
>besides old books from the fifties that say things like "at this point we
>don't really know anything about the language(s) of the Khazar
>Kaghanate".
Speaking of Kaghanates, I seem to've run across an unreasonable number of
versions of this title. Even assuming that g~gh and k~q variation is merely
orthographical, I've seen at least three; _qaghan_, _khaqan_ and _khakhan_.
Do these represent different Turkic languages? If so, what'd be the
ancestral form?

                                                             Andreas

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