First Speakers of Turkish Discovered: 9 Thousand Years Ago

Turkish, which is among the top 20 languages ​​with the highest number of speakers in the world, is a language with a history of approximately 1,300 years, based on the Orkhon Inscriptions, the first known written source of Turkish languages. However, it is the common ancestor of all Turkic languages, of which Old Turkish is a member, in prehistoric times. a hypothetical Pre-Turkish was thought to exist.

A new study conducted today has revealed an extremely important information about the history of Turkish. Including modern Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Mongolian on the origins of the language family The results of the research have been published. Combining linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence, the research about 9 thousand years ago It was used by Neolithic millet farmers in the Liao River valley in ancient China.

The farmers spread their language, advancing in all directions:

The research emphasized that the genetic ancestry of people speaking Trans-Eurasian languages ​​used in more than 8,000 kilometers has been documented. Among the 98 Trans-Eurasian languages ​​are Korean, Japanese, Turkish and various Turkic languages, Mongolian and various Tungusic languages. Farmers using this language family made their way through northeastern Asia, for thousands of years It is stated that it spread to the north, west, Siberia, the Korean peninsula in the east and the Japanese archipelago over the sea.

Martine Robbeets, lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature, said that acknowledging that one’s language, culture, or people’s roots lie beyond their current national borders. an ‘identity surrender’ for which it is not yet ready stressed that. Robbeets, including those in Asia that all languages, cultures and peoples intermingle expressed.