Uyghurs in Central Asian Steppe

YELKEN:

Very good. But not only the Arab was foreign language for Turks. In Gok Turk Empire the language of the rulers and nobles was Sogd.

Yelken:

Before the Turk occupation really Iranic people lived in Central Asia. They had important position in trade of Chinese silk goods and lived in cities.

T Sultan,

Thank you very much for your feedback. I love to discuss these with you , as I think we can share our ideas in certain point.

I have been the regional museum of Sinkiang, and had the chance to see ' the Kroran Beauty', and ' the Cherchen Man' , and ' the Cherchen woman' which made the western scholars to have big interests on Uyghurs. I have read a book about the mummies of Urumchi. At the same time I saw another mummified body found from Qamul. The body was nothing different from the other bodies which have absolutely Iranic origion. Maybe they had Turkic origion! This is confusing. The body found form Qamul led me to think that the inhabitants of Qamul have a close root which the main part of Uyghurs have. I'm not making seperation, and I'm not a seperist. The reason why I talked about the differences of Uyghurs from Qamul, and other parts of East Turkistan is to seek for more information about the history which can offer us more evidence to make sure of who we were, and who we are, and who we will be. There is another conflict about the findings of the mummies. Everybody likes to state his own opinions about te history by taking evidences from those mummies. For western scholars, the mummies were the evidence that some ancient Euroepeans had immigrated to China. For the Chinese scholars, they are very strong evidences to prove the China's connection to the West from very early period. It's redicilius! Actually they have no rights to say anything. They are what we have to examine. They are what from we can find something of our origion!

I'd like to talk about the present sitiuation of Uyghurs and other ethniciites, as we were same people, and are the very close peoples. Maybe you've known. Before the Stalin's devision of the Turkic nations in the Central Asia, there were only three different languages in this area: Arabic, Persian, and Chaghatay Turkcesi, or the common Turk language. The common Truk langauge serverd to the local people as a communication langauge despite of the fact that they had different cultural background. These three languages had the whole inhabitants of the Central Asia tied strongly together. They had used one language and one alphabet. After Stalin's great invention of making people into differnt ethnicities, they had an idea about ethnicity and own identity. Then there were different languages, and different scripts. It caused Uyghurs cannot understand Turkmen, and Uzbeks to cannot read Uyghur, for example. I'm not talking more about others. Let's take an example of the Uyghurs in Sinkiang and Kazakhstan, and Uzbekstan. How much do the Uyghurs of Sinkiang know about the Uyghurs of the Central Asia? How much do they know about the Uyghurs of Sinkiang? How is the cultural touch between these two groups of Uyghurs? Even these Uyghurs use two different alphabet. You see the Germans, Austrians, Swiss, although they are different nations, they have the same cultural background. And to have cultural communication is a way of easy for them. What I'm mostly interested in is not only the history of Uyghurs, but the future of the Uyghurs. How can we make a strong cultural connection between these Uyghurs? And then between Uyghurs and Uzbeks?....

They didn't made up the names, just encouraged these people to split themselves. Actually these people did have historical differences, especially in the near history, although they can be catogorized to one term "turkic" or "Turk".

We modern Uyghurs are a  mixure of Uyghurs in the Steppe and the local Indo-European, Iranic people such as Tochri, Soghdi and Saka etc. It's out of question we assimilated some mongols, but the number isn't significant at all.

The region had already almost been Turkified ( Uyghurfied) prior to the movement of the Uyghurs' in the steppe (Ruling class). As this region was under the continuos control of Hon, Aqhon, Gok-turk, Qanqil, Uyghur rulings, since before 2000 years.  Or you can never explain the three Uyghur kingdoms built in this region just after the collapse of the Uyghur Empire. Remember, they were in a very few number, due to  the plague, famine, natural disater, and war between Qirgizs.

Read intently my posts, I said the region was well Uyghurified before the ruling calss migration.