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Turks and Mongols are not the same

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In this forum I have the feeling that people assume that Turks and Mongols are the same people who speak related languages. Well the problem here is that it's not even proven that Turkic and Mongolic languages are related to each other. The so called Altaic language family is only a hypothetis and many lingusits don't think that a so called Proto-Altaic like Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Uralic even existed

Altaic /ælˈteɪɨk/ is a PROPOSED language family of central Eurasia. Various versions include the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages.[1] These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatoliaand eastern Europe.[2] The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

The Altaic language families share numerous characteristics. The debate is over the origin of their similarities. One camp, often called the "Altaicists", views these similarities as arising fromcommon descent from a proto-Altaic language spoken several thousand years ago. The other camp, often called the "anti-Altaicists", views these similarities as arising from areal interactionbetween the language groups concerned. Some linguists believe the case for either interpretation is about equally strong; they have been called the "skeptics".[3]

Another view accepts Altaic as a valid family but includes in it only Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic. This view was widespread prior to the 1960s, but has almost no supporters among specialists today.[4] The expanded grouping, including Korean and Japanese, came to be known as "Macro-Altaic", leading to the designation of the smaller grouping as "Micro-Altaic" by retronymy. Most proponents of Altaic continue to support the inclusion of Korean and Japanese.[5]

Altaicists

  • Anna V. Dybo (S. Starostin et al. 2003, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008).
  • Ki-Moon Lee (K.-M. Lee and S.R. Ramsey 2011). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean and perhaps Japanese.
  • Karl H. Menges (1975). Common ancestor of Korean, Japanese and traditional Altaic dated back to the 7th or 8th millennium BC (1975: 125).
  • Roy Andrew Miller (1971, 1980, 1986, 1996).
  • Oleg A. Mudrak (S. Starostin et al. 2003).
  • Nicholas Poppe (1965). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and perhaps Korean.
  • Alexis Manaster Ramer.
  • Martine Robbeets (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008).
  • G.J. Ramstedt (1952–1957). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean.
  • George Starostin (A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008).
  • Sergei Starostin (1991, S. Starostin et al. 2003).
  • John C. Street (1962). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and Korean–Japanese–Ainu, grouped as "North Asiatic".
  • Talat Tekin (1994). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic–Korean.
Major critics of Altaic
Alternative hypotheses
  • Joseph Greenberg (2000–2002). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and Korean–Japanese–Ainu, grouped in Eurasiatic.
  • Lars Johanson (2010). Agnostic, proponent of a "Transeurasian" verbal morphology not necessarily genealogically linked.
  • James Patrie (1982). Turkic–Mongolic–Tungusic and Korean–Japanese–Ainu, grouped in a common taxon (cf. John C. Street 1962).
  • J. Marshall Unger (1990). Tungusic–Korean–Japanese ("Macro-Tungusic"), with Turkic and Mongolic as separate language families.
I don't have anything against Mongols. I even like their steppe nomad warrior culture and that they are connected with mother nature unlike the urbanized Turks but since Turks adopted Islam and Mongols Buddhism the two groups evolved in totally different directions and they should not be confused with each other. I speak about the Anatolian Turks of course. The Kazkahs and Kyrgyz despite being Muslims are culturally and genetically still very close to Mongols. The Kazkahs for example are mainly descendants of Ghengis Khan on their paternal side
 
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There is nothing wrong with having Mongol or partially Mongol blood. People say I look partly Mongol.
 
i think turks are part mongol part caucasians
 
The so called Altaic language family is only a hypothetis and many lingusits don't think that a so called Proto-Altaic like Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Uralic even existed

Uh oh. You will anger a lot of pan-turkic radicals on this forum with your "heretic" viewpoints. They love to think of themselves as mongols, still living in yurts.
 
I do not know if anyone knows about the Tatar and Mongolian Hordes.

Mongol and Tatar states in Europe

The Mongol invasion of Europe from the east took place over the course of three centuries, from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.

The terms Tatars or Tartars are applied to nomadic Turkic peoples who, themselves, were conquered by Mongols and incorporated into their horde. They were mainly composed of Kipchaks-Cuman people.

Mongol-Tatar Golden Horde forces led by Batu Khan, (a grandson of Genghis Khan), began attacking Europe in 1223, starting with Cumans, Volga Bulgaria and Kievan Rus. They destroyed many Rus cities including Kiev,[1] Vladimir and Moscow in the process, sparing Novgorod and Pskov however. They originally planned to continue all the way to the shores of the "Great Sea" (Atlantic Ocean). However, upon learning of the death of Ögedei Khan (third son of Genghis Khan, uncle of Batu Khan) in 1241 they returned eastwards to their steppe homelands. This arguably could have saved the rest of Europe from suffering the catastrophes that befell the armies and towns of Poland, and Hungary, however the stretched lines of communication and the lack of vast open tracts of pasture land might well have been the undoing of such a venture.

Mongol and Tatar states in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Uh oh. You will anger a lot of pan-turkic radicals on this forum with your "heretic" viewpoints. They love to think of themselves as mongols, still living in yurts.

There is nothing wrong with living in Yurts. These people are connected with the beautiful nature compared with our materalistic obssesed sedentary societies. However Turks are culturally very close to Islamized sedentary Turkics like Azeris, Uzbeks, Uyghurs and semi-nomadic Turkmens but there is no real connection between Russified Turkics with a strong nomadic heritage like Kazakhs, Kyrgyz or Yakuts
 
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Turk are half breed deprive from Mongol invasion.

You make it seem as if it's a bad thing ? Genetic transference is a beautiful thing, and healthy in a genetics / populations study point of view. :)
 
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