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Post by Mike the Jedi on Dec 27, 2005 22:36:53 GMT -5
Scythian has been identified as an Iranian language. The logical correlation is that the Turkic languages came into the -stan's from much further east, with the Mongoloid invaders. Before that the area was Caucasoid and Indo-European (with some Finno-Ugric areas further north, as well, I'd imagine).
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Post by attis on Dec 27, 2005 23:15:22 GMT -5
From my maps of the Ancient world, some Iranians are in the western part of Kazakstan, but I can't find any Iranians settlements in the rest of the modern day country.
Since Turkic breaks down into Chuvash and everyone else and the Chuvash live somewhere between Ukraine and Kazakstan, harder to pinpoint where Proto-Turkic was. Although Turkic sharing a lot with Mongolian (structure more than cognates), it is possible that they two as I said before were neighbors for a long time.
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