How Turkish Got To Turkey

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[NameExplain]

Anyone watching from a Turkic speaking nation?

[SignsBehindScience]

12:17 A little correction: They did not break into _"Emirates"_ (which is ruled by an Emīr, an Arabic term), but into *"Beyliks"* (a principality ruled by a Bey) which are the Turkic equivalent of an Emirate.

[Snqwy]

Slight misconception - the Byzantines never referred to themselves as "Byzantine". Up until the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople in 1453, they had referred to themselves as "Roman", and were considered to be a literal continuation of the Roman Empire. The term "Byzantine" came about much later, as a means of distinguishing the predominantly Greek influenced Byzantine Empire from Western Rome, which was predominantly Latin influenced.

[metternich_]

The Seljuk Turks do not have Persian origins. However, when they ruled over iranian lands, the people naturally spoke persian so they used persian in the court as well, while the language of the rulers and the army remained Turkic.

[KimseKimsesiz]

They were not emirate… But Beklik or Beylik… The Turkic title of Lord, is Bek in ancient original version, like Özbek and the country Özbekistan (Original Lord The Real Lord Land is thee English translation of Özbekistan) and Bey in modern day Turkish, and in the Renaissance, it was already Beg or Beğ (with the Turkish soft G like the Gh of Through ) which gave the modern Bey…

[DanTheCaptain]

A video on how the Finnish, Estonians and Hungarian got to where they are would be cool! As a Hungarian myself, our origin story is still very much steeped in mystery.

[bentoth]

The Eastern Romans never called themselves Byzantine. That term didn't start to be used until at least a century after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

[nadirhikmetkuleli]

Ottoman Turkish was never spoken all across Anatolia. Even Sultans in Istanbul never spoke it. Colloquial Turkish was spoken by Anatolian Turks, even Sultans spoke Turkish in their palace, with a heavy Istanbulite accent though. Ottoman Turkish was a highly Arabized and Persianized form of Turkish and it was only a written language used in official documents and literary works by elites.

[sparky]

Hitties? Don't you mean "Hittites"? They're rather famous.

[shaemusmelvin]

10:05 The byzantines and their contemporaries actually referred to themselves as roman until the empire collapsed, the term "byzantine" was only used starting in the 19th century

[alperenbaser]

Turks never had emirates . We are not Arabs . We have Beyliks which basicly means Lordship or Principality

[mirceagogoncea]

An 18 hour non-stop flight between Turkey and Mongolia? Lol. It's more like 6 hours.

18 hours is enough time to cross the Pacific from San Francisco to Singapore. That would also be one of the longest flights in the world.

[therongjr]

You're missing a critically important third "T" in the word "Hittites." (They were preceded, by the way, by the Hattians.)

[kainingyao]

The Hungarian language also had a very similar story on how it ended up being a significant linguistic anomaly in the heart of Europe itself, having originated from the Magyar people, who also happened to be from around the similar area in Central Asia as the Turkic peoples, migrating incredibly far from their original homeland. And that's how we got an Uralic language amidst a vast zone of Indo-European languages.

[emrebilgintm]

Fun Fact: The oldest inscriptions in the Turkish World are no longer the Orkhon Inscriptions.

[KathyXie]

According to Chinese sources the Xiongnu were also proto Turkic speakers, they were around 3th century BCE, many centuries before the rise of the gokturk empire, in fact the Ashina clan, the ruling dynasty of the Göktürks was part of the Xiongnu confederation. Even the Huns may have been Turkic speakers or a mix of Turkic and Proto-Mongolic, but we will never know for sure.

[AivRise]

If i'm not mistaken, Oghuzes(from them Turks in Turkey came from) in 8th century already were in Syrdarya, Aral and near to Caspian sea region. After falling of Oghuz yabghu state in middle of 11th century they migrated to the east(or some of them, who were seljuks)

[bblunder]

Europeans had homelands other than the places they colonized, and they would establish colonies, forts and cities in the places they discovered and collect the resources there and bring them to where they actually live (Iberian penuinsila, France or Great Britain). As for Turkic migrations, Turks left their homeland compleatly and migrated to other places. Just like the Indo-European migrations or Migration Period. That is citing two very different phenomena.

Turkoman is the word to define Oghuz Turks. As every other language family, Turkic language family has branches as well: Oghuz, Kipchak and Siberian. Azerbaijanis, Turkish and Turkmens are from the Oghuz Turks. If you jumped to the 10th or 11th century when they started to diversify into different peoples you would realize they would have mention themselves as Turkomans. But the word Turkoman slowly lost its meaning in the later Turkish beyliks (kingdoms) and empires and became a word to describe nomadic Turkish/Oghuz Turks alongside with the word Yoruk.

[futboldunyasi]

This is a useful video, so thank you.
Turks had already spread over a wide geography as Huns and Proto-Turks in Central, Northern and Western Asia, Anatolia and Europe for a long time. Some Turkic people, who were few in number and moved away from their homeland, were assimilated in Europe. We were spreading over a wide geography, not just Mongolia, but it is true that our language is of Asian origin. In addition, Turks consist of three separate groups: Oghuz, Kipchak and Karluk peoples.

[kusturucu]

Cool video. Just a little correction though, those small Turkish principalities in Anatolia after dissolution of the Seljuks were called "beylik" not "emirate"