Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Quoting Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>:

> Anyone here speak Kazakh?  Anyone here know anyone who has email who
> speaks
> Kazakh?  As many of you know, I was planning to go to Russia, but the
> Russian gov't just upped the schedule on visa applications, and now many
> of
> us from the group can't go.  So I've signed on with the group going to
> Kazakhstan instead...  Anyone know anything about Kazakh?
No, but something fishy seems to be going on with "q" and "kh" in it. The
Kazakh version of the word "Kazakh" is, I'm told, "qazaq", the lake that used
to be "Lake Balkhash" on Soviet era maps is "Balqash Köl" on my newer maps. Is
there some allophonic variation that's recognized in Russian but not Kazakh
orthography or what?

                                                  Andreas

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