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Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 16:30
Hello,
John Cowan wrote:
> > Is anything substantial known about Hunnish? > > It was an East Turkic language; its nearest living relative > is Chuvash. > At least this is true for the kind of Hunnish once spoken in Bulgaria.
What kind of Bulgaria? 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 -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru 'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man' --JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club Papers_