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Re: Transcription exercise

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 17:41
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>From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>Doesn't Uzbek do something similar? I seem to recall /k2/>[ko] and /ko/>[qo], in >particular.
Is this a Mongolian thing, too? ISTR /ke/ > [ke] and /ko/ > [qo], inter alia. Maybe it was *ke > /ke/ and *ko > /qo/, or some other notation. I don't think it was a very technical book that I read it in. It's not Turkic, but it is at least Altaic. Paul