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https://twitter.com/BiruniKhorasan/status/1783405348465811923"Loanwords prove we're the same" the same Arabic loanwords exist in very significant amounts in Spanish and Hindi too.
https://twitter.com/Varangian_Tagma/status/1714280457205129497-the Seljuk elites were not concerned with Turkification at all. They themselves spoke Persian.
https://twitter.com/JapanohoIic/status/1656343072903397395Anatolia had a population of 5 million people (Eastern Anatolia included would probably be around 6 million people) in 1520s. 1 million people were nomads. Anatolia's population was halved between 1000 AD-1520 AD
https://twitter.com/spacemarine000/status/1654233581319864320
https://twitter.com/JTfrancais/status/1655987919763456000Low population means lower taxes and smaller militaries.
https://twitter.com/nrken19/status/1522682471497797637Chinese sources are quite mixed on Turks' appearances (in Central Asia, of course).
https://twitter.com/mirchond/status/1649959529776394240He legitimatey once compared Turks to Greeks and Dai people from Myanmar to conclude that Turkic impact was 10%. My guy actually literally implied that Seljuk era Turkmens were from Myanmar.
https://twitter.com/BauleBlu/status/1649925962581123074In short 漢 was taken only for its sound value in Chinese and not the meaning.
https://twitter.com/spacemarine000/status/1649805749546090503Now, Huns in my opinion are most likely a Turkic people but the very reason why this Hun woman is close to Tatars and Turks is because she has Slavic, Balkan and EAST EURASIAN heritage that are also found in Tatars and in Turks to some extent (in Turks the components are similar)
https://twitter.com/beastmeetwest/status/1649350922504634368Oh it's from 2008 so it kind of explains this.
https://twitter.com/NomadicEnjoyer/status/1640205170259775491They descend from a CHG population that gave birth to both Yamnaya and Hittite. So Yamnaya and Hittites are half-brothers. Yamnaya being EHG+CHG and Hittites being EEF+CHG.