Re: [tied] Yers

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: fortuna11111
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Yers
> > ... You have huuuge other influences coming from
> at least a few
> directions: Old Bulgarians (Iranian), ...
>
> They were not Iranian. They were linguistically
> Turkic, speaking a language
> related to modern Chuvash.
>
> Piotr

*****GK: Quite so. And Dan hinted as much earlier
(despite the lapsus of "Turkish" for "Turkic"). But it
is probable that some Iranic (Alanic) clans were
included in the Proto-Bulgar horde. And some overall
Persian influence is discernible in the culture
brought to the Balkans from the Caucasus area in the
7th c. ******

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