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Language Citation Form Standardized Form
Afghan Uzbek (Sar-e Pol) ğåz ɣåz
Alabugat Tatar қаз qaz
Altay кас kas
Armeno-Kipchak խազ xaz
Azerbaijani qaz gaz
Baraba Tatar қас qas
Bashkir ҡаҙ qað
Chuvash хур xur
Crimean Karaim къаз qaz
Crimean Tatar qaz qaz
Dolgan kās kās
Fu-yü Gïrgïs Gas qas
Gagauz kaz kaz
Georgian Urum ɣaz ɣaz
Halych Karaim каз kaz
Ili Salar ɢaz ɢaz
Ili Turki ɢ̆az ɣaz
Iranian Azeri gaz gaz
Iraqi Turcoman ḳaz qaz
Jungar Tuvan kas
Kalmak қас qas
Karachay-Balkar къаз qaz
Karakalpak ғаз ɣaz
Karakhanid qāz qāz
Kazakh қаз qaz
Khakas xas
Khoton газъ* gaz
Kipchak Uzbek қаз qaz
Kondoma Shor қас qas
Krymchak qaz qaz
Kumandy-Kizhi кас, каз kas, kaz
Kumyk къаз qaz
Kuu-Kizhi кас kas
Kyrgyz каз kaz
Mamluk قاز‏ qaz
Mishär Tatar kas, kaz kas, kaz
Mrass Shor қас qas
Nogay каз kaz
Nogay-Karagash қазы qazï
Oghuz Uzbek ғаз ɣaz
Old Uyghur kaz kaz
Ös қас, қа:с qas, qās
Qashqa’i ġaz ɢaz
Sakha хаас xaas
Salar su̱bad* sūbad
Siberian Tatar ҡас qas
Soyot қас, гас qas, gas
Tashkent Uzbek gʼoz ɣåz
Tatar каз kaz
Teleut қас qas
Tobol-Irtysh Tatar қас qas
Tòfa ӄас qas
Trakai Karaim каз kaz
Tuba-Kizhi кас kas
Turkish kaz kaz
Turkmen gaz gāð
Tuvan кас kas
Urum (Azovian) хаз xaz
Uyghur غاز ɣaz
Uzbek gʼoz ɣåz
Western Yugur qaz qaz
Yurt Tatar қаз qaz

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PT form *qāz/qāŕ or *ɣāz/ɣāŕ. Possibly an early borrowing from Indo-European (PIE *ǵʰh₂éns), a Wanderwort, or onomatopoiea. A number of languages have borrowed the Turkic form, including Persian, which then re-loaned the word back to Uyghur, Uzbek, and Ili Turki, which have voiced /ɣ/ instead of expected /q/. It is unclear why Chuvash has xur, rather than the expected yur; Agyagási attributes this to sporadic shortening of PT long vowels.

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