Once Again On The Ruan-ruan Language

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  Once Again on the Ruan-ruanLanguage Alexander Vovin(Honolulu)  Some non- ‘Altaic’ features f  Ruan-ruan • no mid vowels • initial l- • final consonantal cluster -nd  • feminine gender suffix -tu-    Ruan-ruan vocabulary • küskü   ‘rat’   • ud    ‘x’   • luu   ‘dragn’ < MC   luŋ   ‘id.’   • yund    ‘hrse’   • laγzïn   ‘pig’   • qaγan   ‘emperr’   • qan   ‘khan’   • qaγatun   ‘empress’   • qatun ‘khan’s wife’   • aq ‘dung’   • and    ‘ath’    Revised Ruan-ruan elements • küskü   ‘rat’   • ud    ‘x’   • luu   ‘dragn’ < MC   luŋ   ‘id.’   • yund    ‘hrse’   • laγzïn   ‘pig’   • and    ‘ath’   • -tu- , feminine gender suffix  Old Turkic paired collocations • Combinations of Turkic words: • artuq erüš    ‘many’ r baγïr    ič    ‘internal rgans’   • Combinations of Turkic words with loanwords: • belgü nišan   ‘sign, men’ r boš  azad    ‘free, independent ’   • nišan  , azad < Persian.