Words in Uzbek or other Central Asian language


Date Submitted:	03-Jun-2009
From:	Anna Clawson
Subject:	Words in Uzbek or other Central Asian language
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Notice:	Dear colleagues, I am trying to answer the following question. I have a source that says: 'The indigenous people of Southern Uzbekistan for ages referred to this disease [Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever] as Hungribta (blood taking), Khunymuny (nose bleeding), Karakhalak (black death)'. My question is: are these words Uzbek, do their roots look Turkic at all or are they borrowed from/belong to another language (Dari?Farsi?), and what could be the correct spelling? The current spelling may have come from the transliteration from a source in Russian. Thank you, Anna Clawson