Re: Yers

>*****GK: Quite so. And Dan hinted as much earlier
>(despite the lapsus of "Turkish" for "Turkic").

"Turkish" seems to be justified though: it is, Turkish
linguists say, one language; "Turkic languages" are
actually dialects of this language (be it Anatolian
Turkish, or Azeri, or Kazakh, or Tatar-Bashkir or
Uygur-Turkish from Ürümchi or Kashgar, Xinchiang).

>But it is probable that some Iranic (Alanic) clans were
>included in the Proto-Bulgar horde.

as well as in the Magyar & Turkic horde.

George