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Re: OT: Parlez vous Kazakh?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, May 5, 2003, 19:31
Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

> > 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.
Sounds like a pain to read ... Don't you tell me that that's a phoneme oscilliating between voiced velar fricative and voiced uvular stop? Andreas

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