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It's conceivable that if the returning ships used the currents of the Atlantic to return that they could've picked up some North American turkeys and the ancient name was passed down almost in it's pure pronunciation.

Uh huh. Where's the Anglo-Saxon version of the word "turkey"?

You said the word turkey had it's roots in Turkey. That would make sense since that's one of the routes a segment of the tribes took to Europe, although most went through the Caucusus. The bird turkey and the country Turkey are two different words obviously. We spell them the same as a fluke of our language.

No, Dictionary.com said the settlers named it after the country because they mistakenly thought the bird also lived there. Remember, turkeys can be called turkey buzzards. Since "buzzard" is unpleasant, it's usually dropped. It's similar to Jerusalem artichokes (which also have nothing to do with the place they're named for, it's a mangling of "girasole").

Turkey, the country, is named after the Turks, who were originally from Central Asia. There are still Turks there; Turkmenistan is one of the fomerly Soviet countries.

All the modern languages are similar.

Eh? Chinese is similar to Russian?

If not for modern media and modern transportation, the Cajuns would probably have their own language by now different from the rest of America.

They do have their own language, a dialect of French. I think it's still around.