Re: hungary and austria in arabic

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:18:34 GMT

Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> In sci.lang Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in <41B4A87B.754C@worldnet.att.net>:
> : Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> :>
> :> I understood "Slavonic' to be used by the article as specifically an old
> :> form of W or S Slavic language, from which ottoman turks could have
> :> reasonably gotten the name, rather than Russian.
>
> : You'd need to specify "OCS," since "Slavonic" is also Brit for "Slavic."
>
> thanks.
>
> in which case I woudl assume that the article meant "slavic" and that
> turkish borrowed the name from a slavic language of the area (Old Church
> Slavonic is the wrong ear for Ottoman Turkish).

OCS is also called "Old Bulgarian," perhaps to help avoid this very
unclarity. And that suggests it displays specifically southern
characteristics. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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