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To: Cicero
The term "Turk" is unfortunately applied to every group speaking an Uralic-Altaic language. It's pretty obvious that there are many different ethnic groups involved, and not all of them were wandering tribes of primitive herdsmen.

These languages are fairly well related to the Dravidian languages of Southern India, and those people are among the very first civilized folk on Earth.

15 posted on 11/09/2005 5:26:41 PM PST by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: muawiyah

Most civilized people started out as nomads, so the linguistic connections could have gone back to that. I confess that my linguistic knowledge is pretty much limited to Indo-European.


16 posted on 11/09/2005 5:51:49 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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