Re: Yers

>You have huuuge other influences coming from at least a few
>directions: Old Bulgarians (Iranian)

Is Protobulgarian no longer seen as a Turkic language
(Turkish dialect)?

>The Turkish words in all Balkan languages are
>their newest loans - you will find none of them in OCS. Or so it
>seems logical to me.

So Huns, Avars, Khazars, Petchenegs, Cumans, Seldjuk
Turks didn't leave any Turkic lexical elements prior to the
Tatar and then Ottoman conquests?

>Eva

George