[Lexicog] Digest Number 429

[Simon Wickham-Smith]

dear Andrew -


On 16 Sep 2005, at 17:12, lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Also, what is often transcribed as a <v> in Mongolian (based on the  
> Cyrillic orthography) is in fact a bilabial approximant [w], and is  
> usually connected diachronically with an older /b/ phoneme.


thanks for this.  My mistake, I rather hastily transcribed it from a  
Cyrillic-script dictionary without first checking on the "real"  
mongol-un bičig version.  Do you have the bičig version to hand?

Of course, the version I used is a new orthography, maybe a kind of  
neobičig :)  Hmmm, no I am no purist....

Si
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