What about Kazakhstan vs Kazakstan?

Tue Aug 22 15:56:30 UTC 2000

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Stuart Goldberg wrote:

> Kazakhstan is transliteration of the Russian.  In Kazak (or Kazakh or Qazaq),
> both consonants are the same (neither a Russian "k" nor "kh" -- I'm sorry to
> say I don't know the linguistic terminology).  So Kazakstan is transliteration
> of the Kazak.

Interesting.  Would that consonant be uvular -- like a k, but a bit
further back?

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