26-02-2022, 12:14 AM
To be clear -- TURKIC refers to a large language family which originates from southern Siberia in the area of the Altai Mountains. TURKISH refers to a single language that developed from Ottoman Turkish, which despite being a member of the TURKIC family, is highly divergent and which incorporates many words from Persian and Arabic.
KHAZAR language was an Oghuz Turkic language close to the original Turkic dialects of Altai but very far from TURKISH.
This is why it is very important to distunguish. I have seen the videos of the Canadian Turks and they are always unclear on whether they mean OLD TURKISH, OLD TURKIC, or whether they have not yet figured it out. I seek clarity on what they mean.
While TURKISH may have had some relationship to Greek and other Mediterranean languages, TURKIC languages from the Caspian eastward have no such relationship and are extremely different. There would not be much word borrowing. KHAZAR language, however, borrowed many words from Hebrew.
On the basis of both the subject matter of the Voynich Manuscript and its context -- that being Asiatic alchemy and Tengrist iconography, I suspect that the language is KHAZAR not TURKISH and the distinction is crucial. Some of the iconography is very similar to the iconography of ancient Kazakhstan, which was borrowed by the Khazars. Some Khazar artwork is similar to the iconography of the VM.
But what I need to make this case is more detail on the textual analysis and what the Canadians mean when they say "OLD TURKISH."
KHAZAR language was an Oghuz Turkic language close to the original Turkic dialects of Altai but very far from TURKISH.
This is why it is very important to distunguish. I have seen the videos of the Canadian Turks and they are always unclear on whether they mean OLD TURKISH, OLD TURKIC, or whether they have not yet figured it out. I seek clarity on what they mean.
While TURKISH may have had some relationship to Greek and other Mediterranean languages, TURKIC languages from the Caspian eastward have no such relationship and are extremely different. There would not be much word borrowing. KHAZAR language, however, borrowed many words from Hebrew.
On the basis of both the subject matter of the Voynich Manuscript and its context -- that being Asiatic alchemy and Tengrist iconography, I suspect that the language is KHAZAR not TURKISH and the distinction is crucial. Some of the iconography is very similar to the iconography of ancient Kazakhstan, which was borrowed by the Khazars. Some Khazar artwork is similar to the iconography of the VM.
But what I need to make this case is more detail on the textual analysis and what the Canadians mean when they say "OLD TURKISH."