1897-1059 Long and short vowels in Khakas reflexes of the Mongolian VCV sequence Janiszewska Beata author Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków Correspondence to: Beata Janiszewska beata.janiszewska@uj.edu.pl 21 05 2012 Volume 129, Issue 2 2012 93 96 Copyright © 2012 2012 <p>Some problems connected with the phonetic adaptation of Mongolian loanwords in Khakas are discussed in the article. The focus is on non-uniform reflexes of Mongolian VCV groups, especially on the change into a short vowel in Mongolian loanwords found in the Khakas language.</p> 1 MBZ = Rassadin V.I. 1980. Mongolo-burjatskie zaimstvovanija v sibirskix tjurkskix jazykax. Moskva. 2 Baskakov N.A. 1975. Grammatika xakasskogo jazyka. Moskva. 3 Doerfer G. 1964. Langvokale im Urmongolischen? [Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 65]. Helsinki. 4 Janhunen J. 1999. Laryngeals and pseudolaryngeals in Mongolic. Problems of phonological interpretation. – Central Asiatic Journal 43.1: 115–131. 5 Mańczak W. 2004. Irregular sound change due to frequency and the Introduction by Szemerényi. – Baldi Ph., Dini P.U. (eds.) Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics. Amsterdam: 125–137. 6 Mańczak W. 2010. Irregular sound change due to frequency in Germanic languages. – Lingua Posnaniensis 52: 55–65. 7 Menges K.H. 1955. The South-Siberian Turkic Languages, I. – Central Asiatic Journal 1: 108–136. 8 Patačakova D.F. 1973. Dialekty xakasskogo jazyka. Abakan. 9 Poppe N. 1987. Introduction to Mongolian comparative studies. Helsinki. 10 Rassadin V.I. 1982. Očerki po istoričeskoj fonetikie burjatskogo jazyka. Moskva. 11 Svantesson J-O. et al. 2005. The phonology of Mongolian. Oxford. 12 Vladimircov B.J. 1929. Sravnitel’naja grammatika mongol’skogo pis’miennogo jazyka i xalxaskogo narečija. Vvedenije i fonetika. Leningrad.