From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 03 Feb 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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In article <36B7D5D1.283A0970@montclair.edu>, hubeyh@montclair.edu says...

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>There is no evidence for Bulgaric anywhere except the west. 


and under 'bulgaric' here you mean that r-turkic language, don't you? I would
want to draw the attention to the fact that 'bulgarian' also appears among the
slavic l-s, and now in tatarstan some people advocate for the restoration of 
another 'bulgari tjurki' (kipchak?) as their literary language!? And besides 
these three l-s there is the old bulgar which most certainly wasn't either 
turkic or slavic... It is a complete mess and some unified terminology must 
be introduced or, otherwise, the reader cannot understand from the start which
one of these l-s one has in mind.


It would be important if indeed 'bulgaric' (of your terminology) was found
only on the west. It would mean that it didn't correspond to the old bulgar 
as  there are documentary sources mentioning the words 'bulgars', 'bulgar' 
in the east (southern central asia). One syrian source even records their 
migration from the Imeon mountains (Alai-Pamir) to the Caucasus.


Regards,
Vassil K.

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>Mark
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