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Observations on a new comparative Altaic phonology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The comparative Altaic phonology recently published by Professor Poppe is the third post-war attempt to give body to the theory of the genetic relationship of Altaic languages. In the recent spectacular renascence of Altaic studies two similar works have been published: one by Kotwicz, the other by Ramstedt. It is interesting to note that these surveys were published at a time when the genetic relationship of the Altaic language had already been tacitly admitted for about a century.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , February 1963 , pp. 133 - 144
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page 136 note 1 As a matter of fact I think that it is possible to find Turkic -q ~ Manchu Ø correspondences: e.g. Middle-Turkic iČük ‘fur, fur coat’, Coman iČik, Kirghiz iČik, Kazak išik, etc. ~ Manchu iČu; Old-Turkic qatïy, qaty ‘solid, firm, strong’, Middle-Turkic qatïy, qatïq, Tuvin kadyg, Modern UJyghur kattik, kattyk, etc. ~Manchu hata; Middle-Turkic qarsaq ‘fox’, Coman qarsaq, etc. ~Mongol kirsa ~Manchu kirsa. This last Manchu word is probably a loan-word from Mongol, but this is, in such a context, irrelevant.
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page 139 note 1 The majority of these cannot serve for the reconstruction of an Altaic Urforrn. They occur in but two of the three Altaic groups and are, in some cases, and within these languages, of a very limited distribution.
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page 141 note 3 The oriental elements in the vocabulary of the oldest Russian epos, the Igor Tale (Suppl. to Word, Monograph No. 1), 1951, 14.
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page 141 note 5 ‘Lea voyelles longues’, 198.
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page 142 note 6 cf. Szinnyei, op. cit., 48.
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