Abstract
The article focuses on the phonetic adaptation of the early Turkic loanwords in Slavic languages. As it has been demonstrated, there is no evidence for Turkic loans in the Proto-Slavic language. In this article, the author deals with the loanwords a) from the Danube-Bulgar language into the South Slavic languages and b) from the Volga-Bulgar language into the East Slavic languages to establish a system of vowel correspondences, which appeared during the adaptation of Bulgarian words into the early state of the Slavic languages. The presumable phonetic appearance of Bulgar words was established using, on the one hand, the latest version of the reconstructed Proto-Turkic linguistic situation and, on the other hand, the data of the Bulgarian phonetics obtained from the only living descendant of the Bulgar languages, Chuvash, and from the analysis of the consequences of mass borrowing from two different states of the Bulgar languages (Proto-Bulgar and Danube-Bulgar) into Hungarian. In particular, the result of the study confirms the preserved non-phonological opposition of long vs. short vowels, correlated with their qualitative differences in the early state of the Slavic languages.
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