Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

> Pavel Iosad cazdy:
>
>
> > > [qMrGMz] > _Kirgiz_ (with soft [k_j]!
> > > because [ki\] sequence is impossible in Russian)
> >
> > Now it is. ;-) _Kyrgyzstan_ is the official name now ;-)
>
> I know <sad grin> How long shall they rape the lang so voilently?
> Quousque
> tandem?
I rather like the form _Kirgisien_ I've seen on really old (Swedish) maps. If
there's an English version of that's, it's almost certainly either *_Kirgizia_
or *_Kirgisia_.

                                                       Andreas