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Originally posted by tomcat ha
I'd like to say that these caucasians in central asia are most likely predecessors of the turkic people. Turkic people are a mixture of asiatic and caucasian. This might be when the caucaisian influenced got into the current turkic people. These people might be the people that link the altaic people with the finno-ugurians. Although i think the difference between finno-ugurian and altaic is too small to call them different language groups.
Wheat grains nearly 5,000 years old found at a Chinese archaeological site two years ago, have revealed that western man travelled to China much earlier than previously thought ...........snip.......... "The clothing they wore was of a style that was only recognised from Turkey and areas like that, so this seems to be pretty strong evidence that there were people making that journey east 4,000 years ago," he said.
Originally posted by Romantic_Rebel
reply to post by cosmicpancakes
The Cyrillic alphabet were influenced by the Greek Alphabet.
2nd line.
[edit on 26-7-2010 by Romantic_Rebel]
Originally posted by DISRAELI
reply to post by cosmicpancakes
You're understanding Romantic Rebel's comment the wrong way round.
Nobody suggests the Greeks got their alphabet from the Russians.
The point is that the Russians got their alphabet from the mediaeval Greeks.
Originally posted by Romantic_Rebel
reply to post by DISRAELI
Thanks for explaining my comment. The Cyrillic Alphabet was named for St. Cyril, although there is some dispute as to whether this is the alphabet he invented or not. Cyril was a Greek monk who, with Methodius, brought written language to Christian converts in the mid-9th century (c.860) in what is now Russia. The Cyrillic alphabet is closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek.
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Everything you are saying is true assuming that Russians are "slavs" which they are not Russians are oriental. Ancient slavs lived around the areas of Hungary, Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and Germany not Russia. Missionaries from Slavic nations went to russia in an attempt to Christianize them. If you notice Russian warfare they fought more like oriental tartars rather than the broadsword using European Slav barbarians. There is a area in Russia called Kazan which is know as Russia's true capital where you see many orientals.
[edit on 28-7-2010 by cosmicpancakes]