Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 15:16 |
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At 17:12 2002-06-18 +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>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?
The classical Mongolian form is usually transliterated as _qa¥an_, where ¥
should properly be a lower-case Greek gamma. The pronunciation is
approximately ['xAGAn], which becomes [xA:n] in modern Mongolian.
/BP 8^)>
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