Date: May 19, 2006 8:01:48 PM EDT
Subject: Re: [SAHALIYAN] is "Tungusic" part of "Altaic" anyway?
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Turkic political vocabulary came east for pretty obvious reasons, but strangely Turkic horse vocabulary didn't.
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Hi Professor Crossley
I remember Sinor wrote about some of these horse terms and his claims that the Turkic variants did not spread further east because of the Samoyedic/Uralic speakers who formed a barrier.
Again, it could be because horses were always essential and these words formed a stratum in the lexicon that was most resistant to change.
Interestingly I've read about the Ming dynasty horse trade along the borders and how the Ming officials desired Mongol horses. I wonder if the Central Asian horses are genetically tougher?
Maybe so!
Best,
Wayne