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It's population are yakuts - a TurkiC people
and their language is from a branch of Turkic quite different from Oghuz Turkish or Uyghur
It's population are yakuts - a TurkiC people
and their language is from a branch of Turkic quite different from Oghuz Turkish or Uyghur
Why do you misleadingly post this as “PRAVDA” and not the honest UNRAINSKA PRAVDA?
the TurkISH people are genetically far closer to Greeks, Armenians and Iranians than they are to the TurkiC peoples (by some studies only about 5% of their genes are East Asian).
The oldest known Turkic inscription–thus, our first known use of the Turkic language–comes from the Orkhon Valley, which is located smack dab in the middle of Mongolia -- some linguists propose that the Mongolian family and the Turkic family might be related to each other within a broader “Altaic” language family, which makes plenty of geographic sense, but might not make true linguistic sense.
This (difference between genetics and languages) isn't unusual - the English, despite speaking a “Germanic” language, only about 10% German by ancestry (more or less;)
But back to the Turks
We can see the "bleed" of different ethnicities merging.
Interesting. They almost look Chinese! I wonder how closely related say, Turks and Chinese are.
I think I would have enjoyed Risk more if we could have said Yakutia to Irkutia, instead of Yakutsk to Irkutsk.
About 5,000 miles from Moscow.
Putin cannot hear them and is not bothered by the anguished cries of the mothers.
Making this a target for Putin’s press gangs.
Moscow/ St Petersburg; not so much.
What is the primary language spoken by these young men?
Guessing that all the schools are Russian all the time but when having to respond quickly and correctly, the primary language works best; over the radio with lots of background noise...