Re: Rise of Mongol Power
From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:40:01 -0400
"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Nirvana wrote:
> > Altaic family of language has 2 branches: Mongolian and
> > Turkic. This family of languages is spoken all the way in Bulgaria,
>
> Ah yes, Bulgarian. A typical Turkic language.
>
> > Afghanistan
>
> Ditto. Anything in "stan" is Turkic. Like Stan Laurel. He
> spoke Turkic.
>
> > Iran (25% of the population speaks a Turkic language),
> > Turkey, Uzbekistan, Krygistan, Kazakhstan, North West China (AKA Xin
> > Jiang), and Mongolia all speak this.
>
> Everywhere. Even in Australia. Board a taxi and you've
> got a good chance that the driver is Turkish. Or
> Afghani, in which case, of course, he speaks Turkic.
> Or Sikh, in which case, again, he speaks Turkic.
> Why, even in France: the woman who runs the gem shop
> in Passage Jouffroy in Paris is Turkish!
> And Americans celebrate Christmas with a turkey.
>
> > Even the Muslims of
> > India/Pakistan speak Urdu (Turkic word for "Army or camp")
>
> Wow! and there's even a Mongolian dialect called "Ordos"!
And a famous Hungarian mathematician named Erdös. It's all so clear now.
> That's clearly what "Urdu" comes from.
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