DerDoc
military title "Yabghu" was borrowed from Tokharian
Could I have a Source?
DerDoc
Manichaeism and Buddhism - borth introduced to the Uyghurs by Sogdians
Are you sure it wasn't via "Mahayana" school teachers who went into Central Asia...
DerDoc
(this happened in Uzbekistan and in modern Turkey, where the settled populations are mostly descendants of the earlier Non-Turks who have adopted the Turkic language of the invaders in the course of time).
Why would non-Turks adopt a foreign language? if this is the case why just these peoples? Turks ruled Persians but they still speak Persian, Georgians speak Georgian, Arabs speak Arabic, Greeks speak Greek.
As there was no forced assimilation policy, why would non-Turks stop speaking their native tongue?
The way in which you explain it, is as if to say Turks were this small group, a few thousand men somehow managed to get everyone speaking their language and thinking that they're Turks aswell.
The reality is, there was a mass Turkic migration to the West of the Caspian sea
- Oghuz Turk migration during the Abbasids, Selcuks and especially after the battle of Malazgirt.
- Mass migrations due to the comming of the Mongols
- Migrations during the Ilkhanid era
- Migrations during the Timurid era
- Migrations during the Ottoman and Safavi era
Nations living in those lands who wern't large over time would have assimilated into the Turks who in comparison to them were a majority. Larger nations remained as they were.
p/s all our ancestory is essentially the same, were all humans we all go back to forefather and mother.