Historical Context

[GeoffreySea]

@GeoffreySea. Sounds good, looking forward to whatever you publish / put forward.

Though wikipedia says:
"With only one word attested—oqurüm, "I have read"—Khazar was stated by the 1986 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to have the "smallest literature" of any language"

So it will be interesting to see how you negotiate this hurdle.

That is absolutely false. There is a very large corpus of primary Khazar correspondence including the Kyivan Letter and the correspondence between Hasdai and Josef (Yosef), which you might look up. Most of that correspondence is in Hebrew but that's the point -- the Khazar literary class combined Hebrew and Turkic, and used Hebrew for external correspondence, which is precisely why the VM has defied translation. Few people are conversant in Hebrew and Turkic.

As to the Turkic component of Khazar language, recent work has led to the breakthrough that certain Qipchak languages are descendants of Khazar, which was itself a Qipchak language. Most of the language can therefore be assumed to be standard Qipchak, which tends have few variations. Some of the names used in the correspondence are Qipchak names, which led to the breakthrough. Thus between Qipchak and Hebrew we can reconstruct the language, and the VM will help in doing that.

Qipchak is very different from Turkish, which is what gave the ATA group difficulties.