Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Hello,

> And the trasliteration often was not too precise. In this
> case, the problem was
> with absense of [q] sound in Russian. So it was rendered as
> [k] or [x], at random :) Examples:
[...]
> [qMrGMz] > _Kirgiz_ (with soft [k_j]!
> because [ki\] sequence is impossible in Russian)
Now it is. ;-) _Kyrgyzstan_ is the official name now ;-)

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb

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