Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: SunkenCiv

Aha...that’s why I did not find it [Turkish]. This is actually mis-labeled, since this language had nothing whatsoever to do with the Turks, as this went on about 8,000 years before the present-day Turkish ethnic group got to Anatolia.


9 posted on 09/01/2012 8:40:46 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: Pharmboy
The present day "Turks" are hardly Turkic by ethnicity, only by language. It's like how a dominant language group imposes its language on the rest -- as in Azerbaijan or Egypt or Berber North Africa and Turkicizes (or Arabizes) the peoples

the English did the same in cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to a greater or lesser extent and the French did the same in southern France, Brittany etc.

Strangely enough in other places it didn't work -- as in the Bulgars, another Turkic people who became completely Slavicized.

19 posted on 09/27/2012 12:06:59 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson