From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Subject: Re: Parlez vous 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?
I've seen the same sort of thing as well. Lake Balkhash is always spelled
with a KH in English (for those who spell it at all), and Kazakh is
variously spelled with a K or a KH. And yes, it's "qazaq" in Kazakh. So
no, I don't know what's going on.