sum mongolian g week ago post query historical source epenthetic g appear between certain stemfinal suffixinitial vowel mongolian sergej krylov mongolian specifically message appear below remark epenthetic g mongolian far hard word phonetically g fricative sound write phonetically greek gamma soft word g note traditional term hard soft word back front recpectively least khalkha term hard soft preferable historically epenthesis contrary proto mongolian long vowel between short vowel correspond modern mongolian mora half long syllable g old mongolian script show rather clearly g become weaken between vowel fully omit instead two syllable appear twomora long syllable phonological position where elision g namely where two sequence type v g v follow after each vgv vv long v vgv vgv vvgvv long v g long v before suffix initial vgv unfortunately nt represent gamma transcriptional symbol length email system write g long result process modern mongolian epenthesis appear direction diachronic sound change necessarily coincide direction sound alternation view purely synchronic point view example mongolian epenthesis one example remark clear enough explain separately sincerely yours sergej krylov ursulum doleschal ursulum doleschal wuwien ac institut f slawische sprachen wirtschaftsuniv wien augasse wien austrium tel fax 