Anatolians before Turks

Originally posted by Digenis I didnt say "ugly" I ve said more elegant. If u prefer not so naive-or products of a more "intellectual" art. Or more stylized-or closer to clasical pwtterns-or performed by classical educated painters... Is it ok ?

Originally posted by Anton Originally posted by Flipper Originally posted by xi_tujue How so If greeks already was the dominant language the turks just replaced that with turkish. So other languages were lost before the turks at the arrival of greeks. For the same reason as people in USA speak English nowadays and not the native languages. They were forced away from the region so there were not so many left to keep the language dominant.   Flipper, in US people still speak native languages despite the domination of English. And like in Byzantium there are many communities that speak their native languages mainly. They are somewhat analogs of foederati apart from the fact that foederati beared protective function in Byzantium. You may find Irish, Jewish, Chineese, Indian and other cultural and lingual communities in the US. Am I right?

Yes you are right Anton. But my point was that they are not dominant languages. There are still Ponts in Turkey but there are few. They speak their Pontian language but that doesn't mean it is a dominant language.

My sentence " people in USA speak English nowadays and not the native languages" goes for the majority not for groups of Natives that still speak their language ofcourse.

On the other hand, in countries like Bolivia where the natives were not forced in the same way, the Ketsua language is spoken at a very high rate.