Re: Information about the ten tribes in the On-Ogur Hungarian confereration.

Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Yusuf B Gursey wrote:

> > > > > > > > <zh> is the typical romanization of a Dravidian liquid an
> > > > > > > > ancient Indian phonetician called "a type of r". Examples:
> > > > > > > > Kozhikode, Tamizh.
> > > it seems to be a convention for tamil or similar languages, and as
> > > you point out a bad one so no need to apply it to turkish.
> >
> > I wasn't applying it to Turkish. I was just wondering which of the
> > Dravidian r's Turkic z corresponded to and was wondering whether it was
> > the kind of 'r'* that Dravidians transliterate as <zh>.
>
> you said it was pronounced [Z}, which is wrong.

That was unrelated to the <zh> part of the thread. Be that as it may,
what I said was that it sounds something like that. Only I know how it
sounds to me. Other non-Turks haven't responded saying how it sounds to
them but looking it up, I find this comment:

In Modern Turkish, coda /r/ is usually a weak, voiceless palatoalveolar
fricative.
http://camba.ucsd.edu/pipermail/optimal/2003-June/000165.html

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