Re: Rise of Mongol Power

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:38:43 -0400

"Nirvana" <worrylesswarrior@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:34e36f1b.0407241352.7bd0fc53@posting.google.com...
> As an aside: Did you know that the Turkic languages originated in
> what is now Mongolia?
>
> When I read about the Golden Horde allying themselves with the Turks,
> I think to myself that, linguistically, they are the same!

Since the language one speaks is not what one *is*, is it meaningless to say
that people are linguistically the same.