Category Archives: Turkic

The Whites of Asia

From the Pastmist site. It’s in French, but you can muddle through. A truly amazing site with a wealth of photos showing very European looking natives from all around the Central and South Asia region. Areas covered include Afghanistan, Tajikistan, … Continue reading

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The Aryans of Asia

Here are some comments from a recent post. My remarks will follow. “How do you account then for the genetic divide between Indian Caucasoids and Australoids? Given that archeological evidence has revealed the Harrapans to be Dravidian, where did the … Continue reading

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A Little Asian in All of Us

Repost from the old site. Well not quite, but you get the picture. I am going to write a post about Asian genes in non-Asians. Mostly or fully-Asian groups obviously occupy most of Asia. Even if we subtract Australoids from … Continue reading

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Mutual Intelligibility Among the Turkic Languages

Turkic is a large family of about 40 languages stretching from Turkey all the way to China. Most of the languages are pretty close, and it’s often been said that they are all mutually intelligible, and that you can go … Continue reading

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More On The Hardest Languages To Learn – Non-Indo-European Languages

Note: Unbelievably, the PC nutjobs have accused this post, a Linguistics post of all things, of racism. See here for my position statement on racism. Caution: This post is very long. It runs to 75  pages on the Net. This … Continue reading

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