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Cross-border Turkic and Iranian Language Retention in the West and East Slavic Lands and Beyond: A Tentative Classification

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Speakers of Aramaic, Indo-Iranian, Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Mongolic, and possibly Indic languages migrated into Europe between the third millennium BCE and 1300 CE; see, for instance, Syrians, Jews;1 Sarmatians, Scythians, Jas, Jazygians, Chvalis, Alans, Avars, Huns, Roma (on their possible Iranian origins, see below), Cumans, Khazars, Kovars, Pechenegs, proto-Bulgarians, Hungarians, Mongolians, respectively. Apart from Hungarians and Turkic Karaites (at least until recently), most migratory groups eventually assimilated to the local majority ethnic groups and adopted their languages.

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  1. University of St Andrews, UK

    Tomasz Kamusella

  2. Hokkaido University, Japan

    Motoki Nomachi

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Wexler, P. (2016). Cross-border Turkic and Iranian Language Retention in the West and East Slavic Lands and Beyond: A Tentative Classification. In: Kamusella, T., Nomachi, M., Gibson, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34839-5_2

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