https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkXWthLN-8 1,704 --------------------- 1,709 --------------------------- 2,066 ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Turkish stretches from Western China to Turkey: there's an attemp afoot to "standardize" Turkish. Interestingly, Korean + Japanese (related languages) are related to Turkish. I did NOT know, as I do now, that Mongolian fits in there as well. :D Some are claiming that Koreans + Japanese are more related to Europeans than Asians. Perhaps, the same "could" be also said of Mongolians. I just watched a beautiful video on Mongolia just the other day in Spanish. Mongolia fascinates me. They like horses as do the Afghanis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtChMXjhOss Ken, Toronto, CANADA K Ts I am a native Mongolian speaker. For me, Turkish is a completely foreign language. This content creator did not select random words and random sentences. This video is biased. Soon, I will make a video about Mongolian language based on scientific studies and selecting random words and sentences to compare with Turkish. Mongolian language is the standard version of Mongolic languages spoken by Mongolic people in China, Russia and Kalmyk. The Mongolic languages have no convincingly established living relatives. Mongolian language has some loan words from Proto-Turkic language due to the intermingling with Turks during the Mongol Empire period. The Turkic language has some loan words from the Proto-Mongolic languages as well because Mongolian language served as a major language for diplomatic and political affairs during the Mongol Empire period. Please read the following book about the Mongolic languages by Juha Janhunen (2006). “The Mongolic Languages”. Routledge. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-135-79690-7. But the western scholars have artificially and forcefully hypothesized that Turkish people were originated from Mongolia or Turkish language is related to Mongolian language etc. Such a faulty hypothesis is extremely dangerous for indigenous peoples like Mongols. It is the same as how westerners initially hypothesized that the native Americans are Indians and until recently the native Americans were called as American Indians despite the fact that they have no genetic, linguistic, and cultural ties to South Asian Indians. @K Ts I welcome your comment as I'm particularly interested in languages. You're saying A NUMBER OF THINGS. I believe the "content creator" believes in "the commonality of languages" - as I do. For example, we're acknowledging that the Basque language appears to be strongly related to Tamil, the language of the black people of southern India whose origin up till now was a mystery. Prior to that he language was associated with Armenian though the evidence was somewhat "tenuous". What's A BIG HELP HERE to support this belief ("the commonality of languages") is immigration patterns that indicate we all come from the northern bank of the Ganges to where Buddha was born in Nepal more or less (in that general area): "all" 5 ethnic groups. The other interesting aspect regarding language is languages is "the commingling effect" that occurs when they come into contact with each other due to trade or foreign domination (which by the way, made Greek the internation language of the world for quite some time thanks to Alexander The Great): English is a great example of this with French, in particular, imposed by Normans from France for some 500 years whereby the English aristocracy spoke French. The "content creator" was pointing out that there are indications that Mongolain + Turkish appear to be "similar". I believe he "convincingly" made his point. A "hypothesis" is by its very nature faulty because it's a "tentative" answer to a problem under study until a better one comes along. :D THANKS for your input. It's greatly appreciated. We now know learning THREE (3) LANGUAGES to the best of one's ability is THE KEY to having A STRONG MEMORY (in order to be SMART). That's why Language learning is SO VERY IMPORTANT. Interestingly, in grade one in India students start learning Hindi, English + a regional language (or one of any of the 220 languages of India). By the way, we "still" don't know how to teach a "foreign" language effectively + efficently so a person is both "fluent" (knowing how to talk convincingly) + "competent" (knowing how to write the language correctly). I'm LOOKING FORWARD to "your" video about Mongolian language. Please give me A SHOUT once it's done. ALL THIS DISCUSSION + the Spanish video on Mongolia has convinced me that it's A "SUPERB" TOURIST DESTINATION. :D Ken, Toronto, CANADA