Re: a Tocharian theory (was Re: Kentum/satem)

Chang wrote:
>In a message dated 05/03/2002 10.04.40 AM, the infamous And
>(and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM) writes:
>
> >Turkic peoples moving _east_? I thought it was established that they came
> >to modern Xinjiang from Mongolia, that is moving roughly _southwest_?
>
>     Well, if you want to be _that_ specific, yes, roughly southwesterly
>after
>"sorta generally swirling ever eastward."
>     And it can be argued that particular "incursion" from Mongolia was
>just
>one wave amongst many waves of Turkic invasions/migrations. IIRC even in
>the
>T'ang dynasty - the Golden Age of the Silk Road when China was quite
>open-minded to "barbarian" (non-Chinese) ideas, trade, culture and music,
>Chinese scholars were aware of these multiple waves of Turkic peoples
We-ell, my impression was that Mongolia was the, so too speak, Urheimat of
the Turkic peoples. I might be wrong - Asian history is not something you're
supposed to know in this corner of the globe.

                                                 Andreas

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