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Turanian Languages Francis Lenormant, high authority, is of the opinion that the Turanian races are descended from Magog, the son of Japheth. He regards the Turanians as intermediate between the white and yellow races, graduating insensibly into each. “ The Uzbecs, the Osmanli Turks, and the Hungarians are not to be distinguished in appearance from the most perfect branches of the white race; on the other hand, the Tchondes almost exactly resemble the Tong-ouses, who belong to the yellow race. The Turanian languages are marked by the same agglutinative character found in the American races. Donnelly, Ignatius, Atlantis, The Antediluvian World, Harper & Brothers, NY, 1882; Republished by Dover Publications, NY, 1976, p. 437.
The Sumerian language is somewhat similar to the ancient Turkish, or Turanian. That is all that is known about them, and everything else is pure hypothesis. People who habitually represented their gods as standing on mountains, who prayed to them from high places, and who for this purpose even built artificial hills, or ziggurats, on the plains of their adopted land, could not, it seems, have come from flat country. Ceram, C. W.; Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Bantam Books, USA, 1980, p. 354. There is a now-respectable theory that shows that the Native Americans may have come over the Bering Strait. The latest genetic research shows that, indeed, the people on the other side of the Bering Strait in those days were Turkic, and that Native Americans do have genetic origins among Turkic populations. They share Shamanism. The Ojibwa use the word “yurt” for “tent.” Cherokees use “ana ata” for “father and mother.” There are other mythical connections as well. Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors : The Rise of the Turkic World; Edited transcript of remarks, 05/03/05 Carnegie Council Books for Breakfast (Merrill House, New York City); courtesy of Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs; © 2007 Ataturk.com |
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