raapi
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Post by raapi on Dec 13, 2006 21:37:36 GMT 3
According to Wikipedia:
Northern Altay Tatars
The Tatars of the northern slopes of the Altay (nearly 20,000 in number) are of Finnish origin. They comprise some hundreds of Kumandintses, the Lebed Tatars, the Chernevyie or Black-Forest Tatars and the Shors (11,000), descendants of the Kuznetsk or Iron-Smith Tatars. They are chiefly hunters, passionately loving their taiga, or wild forests, and have maintained their shaman religion and tribal organization into suoks. They also live partly on pine nuts and honey collected in the forests. Their traditional dress is that of their former rulers, the Kalmucks, and their language contains many Mongol words.
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Does anyone have any more info on their Finnish origins, their langauge and and links to more wlel known north-western Finnic people?
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Post by Verinen Paroni on Dec 14, 2006 1:30:53 GMT 3
Very interesting. I really would like to read more.
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Post by mesinik on Oct 28, 2007 20:22:51 GMT 3
To be realistic: they might be related to other Finno-Ugric people of northern Asia. (If you want to speak with somebody there, Finnish doesn't help... except if you are asking for a fish) These "tatars" of northern Altai probably have even less common words with Finnish language. But the structure of their language (and folklore) could have common features, that's probably all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2007 14:04:16 GMT 3
But this information is from Wikipedia, can anyone varify if this information is true or not? I can go on that site and say the French are actually Japanese and it'll be there for the world to see.
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