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In article <1993Jan3.164904.6398@desire.wright.edu> nyoung@desire.wright.edu writes:

> On page 44, figure 1 of Roy Andrew Miller's book
> "Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages," the author
> presents a chart showing Old Bulgarian and Chuvash as
> descendants of "Proto-Western Altaic," which is itself
> derived from Proto-Altaic. Although the book, which runs
> for over 330 pages of text, presents evidence that Miller
> believes shows Japanese to be a descendant language from
> Proto-Altaic, I find the Bulgarian/Altaic connection at
> least interesting.

As far as I know the Bulghar/Bolghar language (not Bulgarian
which is a Slavic language) has been accepted to be Turkic
for a while.  The word itself apparently comes from the
Turkic word 'bulgha' which means to mix. The history
book that I remember reading said that the Bulghars were
a mixed Altaic-Iranian group with the Altaic group
predominating.

The Chuvash language is known as a 'lir' Turkish vs almost
all the rest which are 'shaz' languages. The 'sh', 'a' and
'z' in most Turkic languages become 'l','i','r' in this
group.

I can't understand how the 'sh' became an 'l', though. Is
there any occurances of this in other languages ?
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	mark	

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