ARSTECHNICA calling BS on this translation.
Screw ‘em. :^) I can’t get it to load here, I’ll have to view that one later.
Oh, the danged page loaded directly, no fiddling was necessary. Anyway, I didn’t find that to be compelling, just the usual carping among linguists. The main critic, Lisa Fagin Davis, is also quoted in the article as having agreed that an Old Turkish solution was plausible.
Of course, I barely speak my own language, the only project I’ve got going is to find a translation I was working on from Anatolia, it’s gotta be around here somewhere...