Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2003, 9:27 |
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Andreas Johansson zhazdy:
> > Yes. Russian |kazak| is a loan word with the same meaning: freeman.
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> Hm. The last time I asked on this list if the words "Cossack" and "Kazakh" had
> a common origin, the answer I got was "probably not" ... I can't remember who
> said that.
That's just my opinion (or, bettersay, impression), though I think I read it
somewhere...
> No intention to switch back to Arabic either?
Definitely no.
> Was this Yanalif connected to Turkish's Latin orthography?
I'm not sure it was. I saw just several short phrases written in Qazak with
Latin letters. It doesn't resemble much Turkish, but since it may be
unambiguously mapped one to another (except of specific sounds), they may have
similar origin or at least, copmposed on the same principles. Old Latin
alphabets of the USSR had lots of strange letters: I'm not sure if all of them
are unicoded. E.g., [M] sound (Turkish dotless i) was written by Cyrillic soft
sign, and in order not to confuse it with letter b (small), they used Cyrillic B
for sound [b]. [G]/[G\] was written with Latin OI etc.
~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~
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