[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries

[Steven Boozer]

>> Turkey - turIqya'

I bet Okrand was just trying to render the consonant cluster /rk/ in Turk - {turIq} + {-ya'} - instead of dealing with the Turkish umlauted u.


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> -----Original Message-----
Lieven:
>> I do speak turkish a little, and the turk name for the country
>> sounds more like *turqIye'*.
 
Philip:
> Or {tIrqIye'}?
> I suppose they're both equally distant: one is rounded but not front,
> the other is front but not rounded.
>