Imagine a country where the president is like "REALLLLY" trying to reclaim your traditional roots while simeltaneously rebuilding everything out of marble and rapping with his grandson. That's only a SMALL piece of #Turkmenistan. Enjoy this episode and thanks to MALIKA, and her dad Najmiddin for being in the episode as well as all the other rare Turkmen people we found that helped out!
As a turkmen originated turkish who is having a daughter baby, we really love our daughters too much. We are very strong in wars but very soft against our daughters. Welcome to turkic family!
How amazing that I understood everything the Turkmen dad said. My mother tongue is Azerbaijani and we have the same roots. Salam olsun bütün türk qardaşlarımıza!
Amazing, I've learned standard Turkish for a few years now and I could understand everything that Najmiddin said. Also the place names almost all make sense, "black straight lake" and stuff like that.
So happy to see Raouf and Malika are engaged and it all started here 😍 go Geography Now 🎉 making the world a happier place with all this love and learning!
loved the production around this episode. having someone that works as a content creator talk about their own country means that the flow of the video sounds and looks a lot more professional than other episodes which featured guests from the country being covered. the presentation play she did with Hannah, hiding behind her and showing up with each word, was lovely :)
Finallyyyy GN dropped an episode about Turkmenistan❤ Tbh this is THE most honest and positive content on Turkmenistan. Most of the other content out there is about negativity and talks only about “The Government” and not about the actual people and the country. I love how Malika and her Dad are genuine examples of our people. I can see in them my family. Well done❤
I love the fact that Paul tries his best to do these episodes in a fast but also in a good way cuz these videos are such good quality and he manages to do this for us, ty
Many thanks for this awesome video which really did justice to our beloved, brotherly nation Turkmenistan, and for featuring Malika, whose work I've been following for a year and is honestly the best person for this kind of work. Can't wait for the Uzbekistan episode! ❤ Long live the unity and brotherhood of the Turkic peoples! 🇦🇿 Yaşasın türk xalqlarının birliyi və qardaşlığı! 🇰🇿 Жасасын түркі халықтарның бірлігі мен бауырмалдығы! 🇰🇬 Жашасын түрк элдеринин биримдиги жана бир туугандыгы! 🇹🇷 Yaşasın Türk halklarının birliği ve kardeşliği! 🇹🇲 Ýaşasyn türki halklarynyň birligi we doganlygy! 🇺🇿 Yashasin turkiy xalqlarning birligi ham qardoshligi!
I remember obsessing about Turkmenistan and Ashgabat back in 2016 where i watched every UA-cam video about them and scanning google earth , it was fun and fascinating , glad GN made it to Turkmenistan 🔥
I was doing the same thing in the same year... damn good times. Also I watched a lot of Mongol Rally videos where they drove around Ashgabat and visited the Gates to Hell.
I'm Kazakh, recently was in the US and met a Turkmen guy from Tajikistan. We both knew Russian and English but kinda decided to communicate in Uzbek. That's hilarious. He was a nice guy, he told me some of Turkmen traditions and many cool stuff from their traditional medicine. Like eating dried snake meat heals all diseases and drinking rabbit blood also does something supernatural to your body. Central Asia is one big family. Love to everyone. Türkmen biradarlarym sag bolsyn
I am Turkish and rabbit blood surprised me a bit because we call Turkish tea Rabbit blood (tavşan kanı). I thought it was so irrelevant to call it that way, but I think there's a connection between the two
snake meat and rabbit blood, in all honesty, sounds like a really asian thing to do glad that different cultures on a giant continent do have similarities sometimes
It doesn't sound very convincing, maybe he is a Lo'qay or O'zbek, if you are a Qozoq and understood this guy from Tojikston, then he is a Lo'qay, because you, Qozoqs, will not understand the Farg'ona dialect (literary) of the O'zbek language, and the Lo'qay language is a bit like the Qozoq language, but for Qozoqs, the Lo'qay language may sound like O'zbek because of persian borrowings
Fan/flag Friday is my favorite part of these episodes, I enjoy watching you talk about the flags, then interact with us through your unboxing. I'm a little sad that you are considering stopping those.
Loved the episode Barbs, Malika and Najiddin! I loved that Malika and Hannah were both part of the culture segment ! I definitely think that whenever possible, if an episode has a cohost, they should drop in for the culture segment to help with pronunciation because it’s really cool to hear the words spoken out loud instead of them just being on screen
I visited Turkmenistan in 2019, Ashgabat was weird but also amazing, all the big marble buildings.. but almost no people on the streets. The Darvaza crater is só hot.. and so big. Especially at night it was an amazing experience. Kunga-Urgench at the north was so beautiful. I would have liked to visit so much more places, to bad it's all so restricted and difficult. But thankfull to have been able to see all these amazing places.
Actually, our people prefer to ride a bus (taxi) or drive a car rather than walk. This is 21st century, there is a lot of transport that people can use to get from one place to another. I am actually surprised that a lot of people don’t understand it.
Wow this is such an amazing video! Malika and her Father also stole the show! I also love the concept of having almost the entire society trying to bring back traditions, cultures, customs that benefits any Civilization. As well as exposing their unique colours to the World. I'm really into culture/art of the World and this is definitely on my next list. Greetings from 🇷🇸🇨🇦
15:56 I think some of the Teke tribe migrated to Turkey long ago as well. There is a district called "Teke" in Antalya Province, which I assume was named after the tribe.
Great co-hosting by Malika there. And it’s nice that you had used the traditional country music as the outro, instead of the usual whistle. You should do that in the following countries somehow. ü
Awesome job all. The Central Asian nations have always fascinated me. They're so little known to the world. The first exposure I got of Turkmenistan and the other Central Asian nations was from their music - years ago I got a double CD of the Silk Road Ensemble which included music from Turkmen artists among others.
Thanks, Geography Now, I have learnt so much from your documentary channel. The world is so diverse and interesting and Turkmenistan people are indeed very exotic and beautiful looking. Please don't ever lose your culture and heritage, it is important for the country to move forward and embrace modernity but never compromise your roots and history. Peace to all mankind. Greetings from Australia.
Yes! Also, deserts are definitely one of the most underrated beauties of the world (although, for me, as a Finn/Forestic/Krasnian from way up North, living in one would probably be one heck of a challenge) 🏜️.
What a lovely and beautiful episode. While an obscure country, region of the world Turkmenistan is, I gotta say it would be one of the most fun to visit and experience it on your own. Malika and her dad were awesome hosts. And Hannah's part was a bit off to my opinion but was funny to see both girls working in tandem and brave the section to the end And don't end the Flag Part of the countries pleaseeeee. I love Vexillology so I'm one of those 30k crazy peps that watch them 😇😅
The Türkmen people, culture, history and language is very, very beautiful. It's a shame that a bunch of old men decided that all this beauty would be isolated.
@@mbayatab4326 It depends on how the people treat it. If the people are proud of their nationality, language and history, I am sure their culture and traditions will be fine. If their loyalty to their nationality is weak, they will lose it.
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH I am talking Kazakhstan’s reality where its national culture and traditions are generally poorly preserved and a large number of Kazakhs prefer speaking Russian over its own Kazakh language. We in Turkmenistan don’t isolate ourselves, but are trying to preserve and develop our national identity, the Turkmen language and our way of life while taking good things from other cultures.
Some of the friendliest, kindest, and most generous people I have ever met have been in Turkmenistan. However, good lord, those roads. The road from Turkmenbasi to Ashgabat was phenomenal. Anything outside of that....the locals just drove in the ditch
Ethnogenesis of the Turkic peoples. Languages, peoples, migrations, customs. Andrey Tikhomirov, 2020 "The Turkic peoples are formed on a vast space in the Altai Mountains. In the process of development of Turkic peoples - their carriers, dialects and languages were formed, characterized by similarities - as a result of the unity of their origin and by differences, which are explained by the collapse of the common base language into dialects, and then into separate languages and groups of languages." The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of peoples including existing societies such as Altai, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Crimean Karaites, Gagauz, Karachays, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakas, Krymchaks, Kyrgyz people, Nogais, Qashqai, Tatars, Turkmens, Turkish people, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, and Yakuts and as well as ancient and medieval states such as Dingling, Bulgars, Alat, Basmyl, Onogurs, Shatuo, Chuban,Pannonian Avars, Göktürks, Oghuz Turks, Kankalis, Khazars, Khiljis, Kipchaks, Kumans, Karluks, Bahri Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, Tiele, Timurids, Turgeshes, Yenisei Kirghiz, and Huns, Tuoba,Tauri and the Xiongnu.[24][25][26][27][28]
As a Khwarezmian Turkmen Thanks for support us but unfortuanetly our government is trash and Im pretty sure that every Turkmen praying for their president's death btw Netherlands is my dream country and Amsterdam,Rotterdam are great cities 🇳🇱❤
I’m an Azerbaijani and I understood 95% of the things they said in Turkmen. It’s so fascinating that despite being farther than Turkey, Turkmen language is closer to Azerbaijani language
@@Mirza7385 it would be nice if it was possible to construct baku-turkmenbashi tunnel. it maybe more important(or equal importance) than zangezur corridor.
irandən türkəmən qardaşlarımıza salamlar. Damarımda əfşar qanı var, və mən türkəmən qardaşlarımı çox sevirəm. hamınız selamət olsun! Greetings to our Turkmen brothers from Iran. I have Turkmen blood in my veins and I love my Turkmen brothers so much. May all of you be fine 🇮🇷❤️🇹🇲🤗
@@amir_iceking بعید میدونم. من خودم ترک آذری هستم ولی قطعا ایران رو وطن خودم میدونم و براش میمیرم اگه نیاز باشه نه جمهوری باکو که داره اسم ما رو هم خراب میکنه
Was waiting for this episode and really enjoyed learning about Turkmenistan, Malika's presentation and her father's song. My greetings and cheers from India!!
Türkmen kardeşlerimize, atalarımıza Balkan Türklerinden selamlar ve sevgiler! Greetings to our Turkmen ancestors and brothers from the Balkan turks with love!
First of all, I never knew that I'd enjoy so much learning about Turkmenistan of all places. The country always sounded obscure and fring-y to me, like a mystery or something. I'm glad I was wrong, the place sounds really interesting) Second of all, Malika is a treasure. She clearly has the time of her life co-hosting the episode, and she's really good at it, so it makes me orders of magnitude happy that we will see her again. Third of all, yey, I'm one of thirteen people who watch the flag episodes! I really like the flag staff, and Turkmenistan flag has loads on it, sooooo... looking forward to it Awesome episode Barbs, thanks a lot!)))
I hope the country opens up in the not too distant future, may not seem likely but Ashgabat looks like an amazing city. I would seriously consider having my wedding in their fancy marble wedding chappel
What a beautiful episode. I love when the smaller, lesser known, more isolated countries get their moment in the sun. It's like they're hidden jewels waiting to be discovered, especially ones with such deep and interesting history as Turkmenistan.
There needs to be more love for the Flag Fridays! It always includes juicy details that got left on the cutting room floor of the country video proper, not to mention all the fun/weird things that get sent in the mail.
Yes! Also; being a nut for symbolism and culture, I’m a bit of a vexillographer, myself; having designed a few former flags, for mine and my Friend’s micronation (The Forest), and my own autonomous state, in it (Krásnjia, or ”Krasnia”), including the current one; as well, as a candidate flag and emblem, for Finland, to hopefully replace the current Christian-style flag and the very much un-Finnish coat-of-arms, which we copied from Swedish nobility.
Once you're through with the nations, I'd love to see some of the earlier countries in the alphabet be re-done with people from those countries/with heritage, like with the last several!
Turkic peoples ruled Central Asia before Göktürks like Hephthalites, Dingling, Tiele, Kidarites, Yueban Khanate, Alchon Huns and Nezak Huns. With the Huns, the Turkic peoples reached Europe for the first time. Onogur, Saragur, Sabir, Utigur, Kutrigur, Huns, Bulgars, Akatziri etc.
2. Proto-Turkic: Its homeland and historical background The Turkic peoples are known to be traditionally nomadic or semi-nomadic pasto ralists, which can be confirmed by various written sources from at least the second half of the first millennium AD onwards (for example, a herding lifestyle including horse riding is reflected in Old Turkic runic texts, such as the 8th-century Kul Tigin inscription from the Orkhon river valley in Mongolia). For those Turkic speaking peoples that were described as agriculturalists rather than pastoralists in the past few centuries, such as the Chuvash in the Volga Basin, a relatively recent shift from nomadism to sedentarism has been attested.' The majority of traditional 1.Turkic societies practiced agriculture only as a secondary activity. Needless to say, one cannot automatically extrapolate such a situation to the Proto-Turkic period. However, one can provide some insights into the issue by integrating linguistic data with historical and archaeological evidence. To do so, it is first necessary to outline the contemporary views of the Proto-Turkic homeland and the probable historical affiliation of the Proto-Turkic speech community. It is generally agreed among historians and linguists that the starting point of the Turkic migrations was located in the eastern part of the Central Asian steppe (see, e.g., Golden 1992; Kljaštornyj & Sultanov 2009; Menges 1995:55). Turkologists use various definitions for describing the Proto-Turkic homeland, but most indicate more or less the same region. While Janhunen (1996: 26, 2015:293) locates the Proto-Turkic homeland fairly precisely in Eastern Mongolia, Róna-Tas (1998:88), in a rather general manner, places the last habitat of the Turkic speakers before the disintegration of the family "in West and Central Siberia and in the region south of it." The latter localization overlaps in large part with that proposed by Tenišev et al. (2006), who associate the Proto-Turkic urheimat with the vast area stretching from the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia to the foothills of the Sayan-Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia. Such a vague localization seems to be quite compatible with the association of at least late Proto-Turkic speakers with nomadic herders. From a historical linguistic viewpoint, the region under discussion appears to be the most probable habitat for a language that is assumed to have been in contact with Old Chinese, Old East Iranian and possibly Tocharian (and, according to some scholars (see Dybo 2007), at the same time reaching the languages far to the north-west, such as Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Samoyedic and Proto-Ugric). An attempt at verifying the homeland by examining archaeological and paleobotanical evidence, as well as the Proto-Turkic roots referring to natural environment, has also been made (Tenišev et al. 2006). A few noteworthy proposals on the depth of Proto-Turkic, i.e., the time of its primal split into the Bulgar and Common Turkic branches, vary from the 5th century BC (Róna-Tas 1998, based on contact linguistics) to the period between 120 BC and the beginning of the first millennium AD (Mudrak 2009, based on glottochronological analysis of Turkic morphology and historical phonology) to the period between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD (Dybo 2007, based on contact linguistics and lexicostatistics). The proposals regarding the Proto-Turkic homeland can be seen in the context of the possible Proto-Turkic affiliation with the Xiongnu, a nomadic group that lived north and northwest of China in the first centuries before and after the common era. Several dozen words used by the Xiongnu were recorded in Old Chinese texts such as Shiji (or the Records of the Grand Historian) and the Book of Han, and based on these few words, contemporary scholars have speculated on what language the Xiongnu may have spoken. Various hypotheses were put forward during the 20th century, yet the assumption that the Xiongnu, or at least some of them, were affili ated with Turkic-speaking groups has gained the widest acceptance among scholars (Ramstedt 1922; Basin 1948; Gabain 1949; Šervašidze 1986). This affiliation is based on direct linguistic evidence, i.e., comparing the Xiongnu words in Old Chinese texts with Proto-Turkic, supplemented by historical data that connects the Xiongnu and the subsequent Turkic peoples. Recently, the most reliable Xiongnu words that are comparable with reconstructed Proto-Turkic stems have been outlined by Dybo (2007). Janhunen (2015) also recognizes this affiliation. In short, although we can never exclude that the Xiongnu were a multi-ethnic confederation, it is very likely that their core was Turkic-speaking.2 Different historical and archaeological sources give clues about the subsistence patterns of the Xiongnu. Old Chinese histories (including Shiji) emphasize that the Xiongnu were nomadic pastoralists that bred different kinds of domestic ungulates, namely horses, cattle, sheep and camels (Watson 1961). On the other hand, there are multiple indications in Chinese chronicles (including Shiji, Hou Hanshu (or the Book of the Later Han) and notes on the Han annals by Yen Shi-ku) that the Xiongnu were familiar with agriculture, including millet farming (Bičurin 1950; Davydova & Šilov 1953; Davydova 1985). The written sources, however, do not indicate clearly whether it was the Xiongnu themselves or their Chinese captives who were involved in agricultural activities. From an archaeological perspective, although there is about 1000 years of nomadic life in Mongolia beforehand, the Xiongnu period is the first time we have any evidence of agriculture in the region. Agricultural tools and millet grains dating to this period have been found, as well as some isotopic evidence for millet consumption (William Taylor, p.c., Jena, May 2017). It is commonly agreed that the Xiongnu economy was based on pastoralism and had an agricultural component. However, the question of how important the latter was remains open (see Wright et al. 2009; Kradin & Kang 2011; Machicek 2011; Spengler et al. 2016 for further discussion). Given all these observations, it is interesting to examine whether historical linguistic analysis of Turkic subsistence terms can support the association of Proto-Turkic with the Xiongnu. 2. Dybo (2007) shows that the Turkic affiliation is valid, first of all, for the late Xiongnu, while some early "Xiongnu" words may have belonged to an Eastern Iranian (Khotan Saka?) language. There is also a hypothesis by Pulleyblank (1962), which was supported by Vovin (2000, 2002), that the Xiongnu were a Yeniseian-speaking people. An agnostic view of the linguistic affiliation of the Xiongnu is presented in Doerfer (1973). 3. Pastoralist vocabulary in Proto-Turkic Below I list some of the most relevant Turkic pastoralist terms. To give a more de tailed picture, I distinguish between Proto-Turkic and Common Turkic levels. The former label is used when a root occurs in both major subdivisions of the family: the "Standard" Turkic languages, like Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh etc., and the very specific Bulgar branch, which is represented by its only living language, Chuvash, as well as rather poor lexical data from the extinct Bulgar dialects preserved mainly as loanwords in Hungarian. The label "Common Turkic" means that the word is not attested in Bulgar and hence should be technically attributed to the time after the split of Proto-Turkic. However, due to scarcity of evidence from the Bulgar branch, it is common practice in the field to equate such roots with the Proto-Turkic ones unless a source of borrowing into Turkic has been established. Robbeets, M. and Savelyev, A., n.d. Language Dispersal Beyond Farming. pp.136,137, 138.
Thank you very much for the video :) My grand grandmother lived and was a doctor in Turkmenistan during Soviet times. She had to fake her death during an earthquake to flea the country and come back to Russia. Her daughter (my grandma) really liked wearing the tahya hat. She still keeps it. I would really like to go there someday maybe through work, we’ll see.
I think she is more Uzbek than Turkmen because of language like her saying I’m Turkmen same as Americans saying I’m British! Government is much more closer to Turkey than Uzbekistan that’s why there is lots of Turkish companies flights etc! Nice video!
13:20 "Süýtli çaý" or "milk tea" is a default type of tea in Kazakhstan and India, as far as I know. To have the tea without a milk you need to explicitly say so. But in Turkmenistan it's not the default tea type, you need to say that you want a tea with milk.
Probably my favorite GN episode. I subscribed only recently, and I wanted to go back to the veeeeery beginning and watch every single one. I'm almost caught up! Malika was fantastic. Barbs, you do a great job.
When the Seljuk Turks conquered Anatolia they didn't only bring their language & culture but also life-forms with them, Tulips and Turkish Shepherd dog breeds have their origin back in Turkmenistan 🇹🇲🇹🇷
Thank you very much guys. I've been there twice already and going again next week. Fascinating country, I love it very much. I think what you didn't mention is the natural beauty of Turkmenistan. The Darai-dere, the cave systems of Kutinanga, the dinasour imprints on the rocks. Very few people get to see these, these are incredible and utterly mindblowing.
17:01 "th" is common in the Teke and maybe Yomut tribes. So it's not used in 2 regions of Turkmenistan that makes up to half of the population. So I would highly doubt that "th" is the attribute of the language itself, rather it's attribute of dialects.
Imagine a country where the president is like "REALLLLY" trying to reclaim your traditional roots while simeltaneously rebuilding everything out of marble and rapping with his grandson. That's only a SMALL piece of #Turkmenistan. Enjoy this episode and thanks to MALIKA, and her dad Najmiddin for being in the episode as well as all the other rare Turkmen people we found that helped out!
Thank you! :)
North Korea 2.0
That is definitely interesting dude
Wut the f*ck
@@DoniPogba777 😂😂😂
thank you so much for letting my dad and i be part of this, barbs! i hope you all enjoy this! 🇹🇲❤️
Maladys
Turkmenistan is a country with such high potential, let's hope one day she democratises and people can visit her wonders freely
I love you from phllipines 🇵🇭❤️♥️❤️
Hello from Barbados...
@@communistchicken4249 idiot
The daughter father relationship in this episode was incredibly wholesome.
"Dad, get over here"
cuddly teddy bear of a dad walks in and waves
Do you not understand what he believes in?
As a turkmen originated turkish who is having a daughter baby, we really love our daughters too much. We are very strong in wars but very soft against our daughters. Welcome to turkic family!
As a Kazakh, I understood about 80% of what the dad said. Wow!
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Me too as a Turkish
Its Khwarezmian yeah our language mostly similar to Turkish and Khwarezm is fatherland of Oguz Turks but our language also similar Kazakh too
i m anatolian yörük and i also got everything almost
Because we are all TURK
How amazing that I understood everything the Turkmen dad said. My mother tongue is Azerbaijani and we have the same roots. Salam olsun bütün türk qardaşlarımıza!
Turkish people can understand too😅
@@papazataklaattiranimam oh you're here again, the turkish fascist who spreads propaganda 🤣
Türkiyeden selamlar olsun soydasim
He didnt speak in Turkmen, maybe in Uzbek but...i could hardly understand him((im turkmen
Selam olsun kardeşim 🇹🇷♥️🇦🇿♥️🇹🇲
Amazing, I've learned standard Turkish for a few years now and I could understand everything that Najmiddin said. Also the place names almost all make sense, "black straight lake" and stuff like that.
*strait
Wow, incredible video! Turkmenistan, one of the few countries I have left 🎉
भाई
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Brother
Wait a sec
Lol Thanks man, Awesome traveling in Batumi georgia with you literally right now. Like you are literally in the same room with me 🤣
Thank you for an amazing opportunity to teach the world about Turkmenistan and Turkmen ppl!🇹🇲❤️
Let’s see some Turkmen recipes!
Senem emrikäde yaşiyonlardan mi? O gyz Türkmen kem özbek köp ha o 🤦♂️
You got the wrong girl. This is the one who talked about the food.
Turkmen Pakistani bahi bahi 🥰🤝
I respect Turkmenistan and I think that Turkmenistan is a great country.
So happy to see Raouf and Malika are engaged and it all started here 😍 go Geography Now 🎉 making the world a happier place with all this love and learning!
loved the production around this episode.
having someone that works as a content creator talk about their own country means that the flow of the video sounds and looks a lot more professional than other episodes which featured guests from the country being covered.
the presentation play she did with Hannah, hiding behind her and showing up with each word, was lovely :)
Finallyyyy GN dropped an episode about Turkmenistan❤ Tbh this is THE most honest and positive content on Turkmenistan. Most of the other content out there is about negativity and talks only about “The Government” and not about the actual people and the country. I love how Malika and her Dad are genuine examples of our people. I can see in them my family. Well done❤
Yeah her broken Türkmençe proves that, she's assimilated
I have lots of kazakh and kyrgyt friends but sadly no turkmen ones :/
I love the fact that Paul tries his best to do these episodes in a fast but also in a good way cuz these videos are such good quality and he manages to do this for us, ty
Finally, I feel like it's been 40 years since the last episode.
Nah for real🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
True
Travel is more important than this series it seems
It was fast for me
@@KidGibson So mans not allowed a break and a life? Sheesh
I loved Malika's father speaking in Turkmenistan language. 😀
You mean Turkmen?
@@hardal201 Turkmenistani
@@papazataklaattiranimamTürkmenche imam canım
I am Türkmen myself, but I hardly understood what he said, it sounds more Uzbek than turkmen
@@hardal201 , yes.
Qardaş Türkmen xalqına salam olsun 🇦🇿❤🇹🇲 love Turkmenistan from Azerbaijan
Türkmenistan dan size salam gardaş Ýaşasyn ❤🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲❤
Mannat hahah
Many thanks for this awesome video which really did justice to our beloved, brotherly nation Turkmenistan, and for featuring Malika, whose work I've been following for a year and is honestly the best person for this kind of work. Can't wait for the Uzbekistan episode!
❤ Long live the unity and brotherhood of the Turkic peoples!
🇦🇿 Yaşasın türk xalqlarının birliyi və qardaşlığı!
🇰🇿 Жасасын түркі халықтарның бірлігі мен бауырмалдығы!
🇰🇬 Жашасын түрк элдеринин биримдиги жана бир туугандыгы!
🇹🇷 Yaşasın Türk halklarının birliği ve kardeşliği!
🇹🇲 Ýaşasyn türki halklarynyň birligi we doganlygy!
🇺🇿 Yashasin turkiy xalqlarning birligi ham qardoshligi!
Malika's dad sings soo beautifully! Great to hear some authentic Turkmen singing
That wasn’t Turkmen singing that was Uzbek singing
@@serdaratayev308 Oo, I'm sorry I didn't know.
Still nice though🎉
İ am from Turkey and i almost completely understand her fathers greeting
That warmth my hearth kinsman
I remember obsessing about Turkmenistan and Ashgabat back in 2016 where i watched every UA-cam video about them and scanning google earth , it was fun and fascinating , glad GN made it to Turkmenistan 🔥
Hah I did the same a year ago!
But ... why?
I was doing the same thing in the same year... damn good times. Also I watched a lot of Mongol Rally videos where they drove around Ashgabat and visited the Gates to Hell.
I'm doing so now. Lmao
Greetings to Turkmenistan from Bosnia. 🇧🇦🇹🇲
Salam from Afghanistan to our beautiful neighbor Turkmenistan 🇦🇫❤🇹🇲
Thanks for making video about our turkmen brothers love from Uzbekistan. 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿 i hope you will arrive to our country soon
Love UZBEKISTAN 🇺🇿 BROTHER AND SISTERS FROM CRAMIAN TATAR BROTHER TURAN
@@islammehmeov2334 assalomu alaykum
@@orziqulovburhoniddin8564 ve Alekum Selamun
Turan brothers 🇹🇷
Malika and her Dad were amazing! Loved the enthusiasm :)
I am an Afghan turkmen. love my ancestors land 🇹🇲🇹🇲🇦🇫🇦🇫
بیگی خوده
I think that Turkmenistan is a great country.
Me and my friend from Belgium created the twp alliance it's an organization where we protect each other from our enemies.
no one is ancestor to no one. we turkmens from Turkmenistan are brothers to you
Nirden sen garındaşım 😄 qaysı şeherden?
I'm Kazakh, recently was in the US and met a Turkmen guy from Tajikistan. We both knew Russian and English but kinda decided to communicate in Uzbek. That's hilarious. He was a nice guy, he told me some of Turkmen traditions and many cool stuff from their traditional medicine. Like eating dried snake meat heals all diseases and drinking rabbit blood also does something supernatural to your body. Central Asia is one big family. Love to everyone. Türkmen biradarlarym sag bolsyn
I am Turkish and rabbit blood surprised me a bit because we call Turkish tea Rabbit blood (tavşan kanı). I thought it was so irrelevant to call it that way, but I think there's a connection between the two
cheers for all Central Asians
snake meat and rabbit blood, in all honesty, sounds like a really asian thing to do
glad that different cultures on a giant continent do have similarities sometimes
Why is he not a billionaire selling snake oil, sorry, snake meat? LIAR
It doesn't sound very convincing, maybe he is a Lo'qay or O'zbek, if you are a Qozoq and understood this guy from Tojikston, then he is a Lo'qay, because you, Qozoqs, will not understand the Farg'ona dialect (literary) of the O'zbek language, and the Lo'qay language is a bit like the Qozoq language, but for Qozoqs, the Lo'qay language may sound like O'zbek because of persian borrowings
so excited for uzbekistan when malika will be back, she was a great addition to the show!
Great video, your work deserve like and comment 🖤
From Khorezm 🇺🇿
Wow me also from Khorezm
@@aimamova8628 nerindansiz
@@ZaripboyevBehruzbek Xazarasp
Fan/flag Friday is my favorite part of these episodes, I enjoy watching you talk about the flags, then interact with us through your unboxing. I'm a little sad that you are considering stopping those.
Hey Barb, i just wanted to say that i like the way you have made learning fun 😊
Loved the episode Barbs, Malika and Najiddin! I loved that Malika and Hannah were both part of the culture segment !
I definitely think that whenever possible, if an episode has a cohost, they should drop in for the culture segment to help with pronunciation because it’s really cool to hear the words spoken out loud instead of them just being on screen
I visited Turkmenistan in 2019, Ashgabat was weird but also amazing, all the big marble buildings.. but almost no people on the streets. The Darvaza crater is só hot.. and so big. Especially at night it was an amazing experience. Kunga-Urgench at the north was so beautiful. I would have liked to visit so much more places, to bad it's all so restricted and difficult. But thankfull to have been able to see all these amazing places.
Actually, our people prefer to ride a bus (taxi) or drive a car rather than walk. This is 21st century, there is a lot of transport that people can use to get from one place to another. I am actually surprised that a lot of people don’t understand it.
@@mbayatab4326 So they teleport from their homes to public transportation? That's awesome.
Can you explain what you saw on your way to the crater?
What an absolutely luminous co-host you flew over! Im so charmed B) Great to get to know Turkmenistan more!! Greetings from Finland :)
what does vittu mean
@@hissukka6619 flowerpot
@@yohanbeck8172 and vittusaatana
@@hissukka6619 flower on the pot
Malika and her dad's traditional clothes are so beautiful ! Gotta love this aspect of Turkmen culture. Plus the Akhal-Teke, obviously !
Wow this is such an amazing video! Malika and her Father also stole the show!
I also love the concept of having almost the entire society trying to bring back traditions, cultures, customs that benefits any Civilization. As well as exposing their unique colours to the World.
I'm really into culture/art of the World and this is definitely on my next list.
Greetings from 🇷🇸🇨🇦
Great job! This is the best video I watched about my country! I just loved the way you did it! Thank you
I love Turkmen people they are nice and friendly people from Cambodia 🇰🇭 🇹🇲
Hello to Turkmen 🇹🇲 people from Kyrgyz 🇰🇬 guy!
❤🤝🇰🇬🤝🇹🇲❤
Way to go Malika!!! 🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲
thank you brandon!!! ❤
love Turkmenistan from Turkiye
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@@DJ_Ichiyo shut up furry
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@@DJ_IchiyoTürkiye not turkey!
15:56 I think some of the Teke tribe migrated to Turkey long ago as well. There is a district called "Teke" in Antalya Province, which I assume was named after the tribe.
True!
Great co-hosting by Malika there. And it’s nice that you had used the traditional country music as the outro, instead of the usual whistle. You should do that in the following countries somehow. ü
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR YEARS
Awesome job all. The Central Asian nations have always fascinated me. They're so little known to the world. The first exposure I got of Turkmenistan and the other Central Asian nations was from their music - years ago I got a double CD of the Silk Road Ensemble which included music from Turkmen artists among others.
Love to our Oğuz brothers 🇹🇷❤🇦🇿❤🇹🇲
Azerbaijani: Səni sevirəm
Turkish: Seni seviyorum
Turkmen: Seni söýýärin
If I press “translate to English” “Turkish:” becomes “English:” lol
Oghuz brothers 🇹🇷❤🇦🇿❤🇹🇲
@@simplifier_ I laugh high😂
Salar: Men seni söyünba
Thanks, Geography Now, I have learnt so much from your documentary channel. The world is so diverse and interesting and Turkmenistan people are indeed very exotic and beautiful looking.
Please don't ever lose your culture and heritage, it is important for the country to move forward and embrace modernity but never compromise your roots and history. Peace to all mankind.
Greetings from Australia.
turkmenistan seems like a such a beautiful country! great video
Yeah but they are nuts and strict
@@matthewwelsh294 it’s ok it’s all a phase to regain their heritage. I give them 50 years to open up😂
Yes! Also, deserts are definitely one of the most underrated beauties of the world (although, for me, as a Finn/Forestic/Krasnian from way up North, living in one would probably be one heck of a challenge) 🏜️.
Amazing monuments and landscapes. I had no clue Turkmenistan had such beautiful places.
How would you know? No one is allowed to go there.
It's hard to know much about Turkmenistan when it's so difficult to actually visit it.
What a lovely and beautiful episode. While an obscure country, region of the world Turkmenistan is, I gotta say it would be one of the most fun to visit and experience it on your own. Malika and her dad were awesome hosts. And Hannah's part was a bit off to my opinion but was funny to see both girls working in tandem and brave the section to the end
And don't end the Flag Part of the countries pleaseeeee. I love Vexillology so I'm one of those 30k crazy peps that watch them 😇😅
Can you please enlighten me... what is Vexillology??
@@rebeccasimantov5476 basically it's the study of the banners and flags of the places
I'm waited so much for this episode because central Asia is interesting! Greetings from Ukraine with Hungarian heritage! 🇺🇦🇭🇺
I had the pleasure of performing together with Turkmenistan's youth orchestra in Germany 2019. Very talented and hard working folks.
What was the name of the orchestra?
@@mbayatab4326 I can't remember for the life of me lol. But the conductor's name was Rasul Klichev.
@@whatever2045 Yep, that’s Rasul Klytchev Orchestra
@@mbayatab4326 Yes sorry for typo
The Türkmen people, culture, history and language is very, very beautiful. It's a shame that a bunch of old men decided that all this beauty would be isolated.
Kazakhstan is very open to the world, that’s why you couldn’t keep your culture, traditions and language
@@mbayatab4326 It depends on how the people treat it. If the people are proud of their nationality, language and history, I am sure their culture and traditions will be fine. If their loyalty to their nationality is weak, they will lose it.
@@saulgoodmanKAZAKH I am talking Kazakhstan’s reality where its national culture and traditions are generally poorly preserved and a large number of Kazakhs prefer speaking Russian over its own Kazakh language. We in Turkmenistan don’t isolate ourselves, but are trying to preserve and develop our national identity, the Turkmen language and our way of life while taking good things from other cultures.
are you sure about history ?
@@behraddadashzadeh9872 those Turkmens used to be pretty strong. Many tales of Kazakhs being enslaved by Turkmens went around centuries ago
Some of the friendliest, kindest, and most generous people I have ever met have been in Turkmenistan. However, good lord, those roads. The road from Turkmenbasi to Ashgabat was phenomenal. Anything outside of that....the locals just drove in the ditch
Im Turkish And I can mostly understand Turkmen❤
Amazing episode!
Very interesting! Malika is such an amazing host! She (and Dad) made this one sizzle!
Ethnogenesis of the Turkic peoples. Languages, peoples, migrations, customs. Andrey Tikhomirov, 2020 "The Turkic peoples are formed on a vast space in the Altai Mountains. In the process of development of Turkic peoples - their carriers, dialects and languages were formed, characterized by similarities - as a result of the unity of their origin and by differences, which are explained by the collapse of the common base language into dialects, and then into separate languages and groups of languages."
The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of peoples including existing societies such as Altai, Azerbaijanis, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chuvashes, Crimean Karaites, Gagauz, Karachays, Karakalpaks, Kazakhs, Khakas, Krymchaks, Kyrgyz people, Nogais, Qashqai, Tatars, Turkmens, Turkish people, Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, and Yakuts and as well as ancient and medieval states such as Dingling, Bulgars, Alat, Basmyl, Onogurs, Shatuo, Chuban,Pannonian Avars, Göktürks, Oghuz Turks, Kankalis, Khazars, Khiljis, Kipchaks, Kumans, Karluks, Bahri Mamluks, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, Tiele, Timurids, Turgeshes, Yenisei Kirghiz, and Huns, Tuoba,Tauri and the Xiongnu.[24][25][26][27][28]
Turkic Family ❣️
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What about Tajikistan 🇹🇯
@@oskaranddaniel7582 It's Iranic country but we don't have a problem with them of course
@@oskaranddaniel7582 they're persians
@@oskaranddaniel7582 they are not Turkic
❤🤝❤Türk
While the government might not be as great at least the people are! Love Turkmenistan from Netherlands
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the government is like North Korea sugar free version
Nou ik ben ook en turkmen
A dictatorship where the dictator does not kill or jail loads of people, how odd
As a Khwarezmian Turkmen Thanks for support us but unfortuanetly our government is trash and Im pretty sure that every Turkmen praying for their president's death btw Netherlands is my dream country and Amsterdam,Rotterdam are great cities 🇳🇱❤
@@aimamova8628 Thanks man! I hope you turkmen's get the government you guys prefer :)
I’m an Azerbaijani and I understood 95% of the things they said in Turkmen. It’s so fascinating that despite being farther than Turkey, Turkmen language is closer to Azerbaijani language
Yalňız bir deňiz bar aramızda garındaş 🤗
@@togrulbeg764 Xəzər dənizi 😀
@@IDeserveToGetTortured evet, hangi şehirden?
Not too far away. It's just the Caspian Sea which separates Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
@@Mirza7385 it would be nice if it was possible to construct baku-turkmenbashi tunnel. it maybe more important(or equal importance) than zangezur corridor.
Love my Turkmen brothers and sisters from Türkiye!
i’m lucky to have my birthday when they have their national day
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Türkiye’den Türkmenistan’a çok selamlar 🇹🇷🤝🏻🇹🇲
Türkmenistani dan size salam gardaş 🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲🇹🇷🇦🇿❤🤝❤
irandən türkəmən qardaşlarımıza salamlar. Damarımda əfşar qanı var, və mən türkəmən qardaşlarımı çox sevirəm. hamınız selamət olsun!
Greetings to our Turkmen brothers from Iran. I have Turkmen blood in my veins and I love my Turkmen brothers so much.
May all of you be fine
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Köp yaşa garındaşım, Türkəmən irani teleffüz o, Türkmen diymeli. Türkçülüge dönüň, iraniň täsiraatlarını güm ediň. Bizden hem salamlar bolsun sizlere gandaşım!
@@togrulbeg764 Türkmen yerine Türk desek de doğru olur çünkü Türkmen ya da Yörük konar-göçerlere denir. Türk ise mesken tutmuş Türkmen demektir
برادر شما ترکمن گلستانی ؟ ایا با ترکمنستان بیشتر از ایران همزاد پنداری داری ؟ قصدم توهین نیست ، برام سواله .
@@togrulbeg764 lol. keep dreaming Iranians are way more united than you would think
@@amir_iceking بعید میدونم. من خودم ترک آذری هستم ولی قطعا ایران رو وطن خودم میدونم و براش میمیرم اگه نیاز باشه نه جمهوری باکو که داره اسم ما رو هم خراب میکنه
Was waiting for this episode and really enjoyed learning about Turkmenistan, Malika's presentation and her father's song. My greetings and cheers from India!!
This is Why I love you Barbs Geography now. You pack so much and yet deliver with accurate facts. Thank you 😊
Lots of love to all my Turkic people from Azerbaijan❤🇦🇿
Love both from Turkiye
MUCH LOVE TO MAY TO ALL MAY TURKIC BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM CRAMIAN TATAR BROTHER TURAN 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇿🇹🇲🇹🇷
rest of the world hates turks, thank you for wiping out entire cultures, karma is going to get you and your people
@@eztebeotxoa1165 🤣🤣🤣🖕🖕
@@papazataklaattiranimam you're from iran since adhere shia
Glad to hear Malika will be also in the Uzbekistan video. She been a great co host here with her father.
Greetings to Turkmenistan, our Oghuz brothers from Turkey. I hope you get rid of your lousy government (All Turkic countries are ruling by dictators)
I see you everywhere lol
Love to our Turkic people from Turkey❤
Do you like winged hussars too?
@@PROVOCATEURSK do you like german tanks
Me from Türkiye 🇹🇷 and completely understand what he father said. Ahh my Turkic brothers
I like how he's content are very fun and educational! Keep it up bro! 😁
Love Turkmenistan from Turkiye 🇹🇷🇹🇲
Is turkey*
@@Roossii that's how you write Turkey in Turkish language
@@Roossii go eat pineapple pizza italian
@@sbd03 we conquer constantinople in roman empire days. You're technically an italian colony hehe 🇮🇹🇨🇭💪🏻
@@Roossii what a troll.
Güreş simply means wrestling in Turkish.
One of my favorite episodes in a while. Man barby I’ve been here since 2014 and it just warms my heart you’re almost done
This episode deserves to be called one of the best! Turkmenistan is really an amazing country.
Thank you for this episode.
Türkmen kardeşlerimize, atalarımıza Balkan Türklerinden selamlar ve sevgiler! Greetings to our Turkmen ancestors and brothers from the Balkan turks with love!
Return Jannisaries, thanks.
@@PROVOCATEURSK cope
First of all, I never knew that I'd enjoy so much learning about Turkmenistan of all places. The country always sounded obscure and fring-y to me, like a mystery or something. I'm glad I was wrong, the place sounds really interesting)
Second of all, Malika is a treasure. She clearly has the time of her life co-hosting the episode, and she's really good at it, so it makes me orders of magnitude happy that we will see her again.
Third of all, yey, I'm one of thirteen people who watch the flag episodes! I really like the flag staff, and Turkmenistan flag has loads on it, sooooo... looking forward to it
Awesome episode Barbs, thanks a lot!)))
I hope the country opens up in the not too distant future, may not seem likely but Ashgabat looks like an amazing city. I would seriously consider having my wedding in their fancy marble wedding chappel
Me too! That wedding palace is awesome!
It looks dystopian
It's a testament to a dictator spending the people's money on useless prestige architecture instead of development :(
Oh my god I'm so glad that she'll be back on Uzbekistan episode. Really looking forward to it!
bro that Pishme looks like the Gujarati snack of "Sakkarpara" 😄😄❤️
edit: also we have that stealing of shoes is also a tradition in India too 😂😂
I like Turkmenistan a lot greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽🤝🇹🇲
Thanks we also love Mexico 🇲🇽❤
What a beautiful episode. I love when the smaller, lesser known, more isolated countries get their moment in the sun. It's like they're hidden jewels waiting to be discovered, especially ones with such deep and interesting history as Turkmenistan.
There needs to be more love for the Flag Fridays! It always includes juicy details that got left on the cutting room floor of the country video proper, not to mention all the fun/weird things that get sent in the mail.
Yes! Also; being a nut for symbolism and culture, I’m a bit of a vexillographer, myself; having designed a few former flags, for mine and my Friend’s micronation (The Forest), and my own autonomous state, in it (Krásnjia, or ”Krasnia”), including the current one; as well, as a candidate flag and emblem, for Finland, to hopefully replace the current Christian-style flag and the very much un-Finnish coat-of-arms, which we copied from Swedish nobility.
Lots of love for Turkemenistan from India.
they can't read this bro they don't have internet 😭😭💀💀
Once you're through with the nations, I'd love to see some of the earlier countries in the alphabet be re-done with people from those countries/with heritage, like with the last several!
Turkic peoples ruled Central Asia before Göktürks like Hephthalites, Dingling, Tiele, Kidarites, Yueban Khanate, Alchon Huns and Nezak Huns.
With the Huns, the Turkic peoples reached Europe for the first time. Onogur, Saragur, Sabir, Utigur, Kutrigur, Huns, Bulgars, Akatziri etc.
2. Proto-Turkic: Its homeland and historical background
The Turkic peoples are known to be traditionally nomadic or semi-nomadic pasto ralists, which can be confirmed by various written sources from at least the second half of the first millennium AD onwards (for example, a herding lifestyle including horse riding is reflected in Old Turkic runic texts, such as the 8th-century Kul Tigin inscription from the Orkhon river valley in Mongolia). For those Turkic speaking peoples that were described as agriculturalists rather than pastoralists in the past few centuries, such as the Chuvash in the Volga Basin, a relatively recent shift from nomadism to sedentarism has been attested.' The majority of traditional 1.Turkic societies practiced agriculture only as a secondary activity. Needless to say, one cannot automatically extrapolate such a situation to the Proto-Turkic period. However, one can provide some insights into the issue by integrating linguistic data with historical and archaeological evidence. To do so, it is first necessary to outline the contemporary views of the Proto-Turkic homeland and the probable historical affiliation of the Proto-Turkic speech community.
It is generally agreed among historians and linguists that the starting point of the Turkic migrations was located in the eastern part of the Central Asian steppe (see, e.g., Golden 1992; Kljaštornyj & Sultanov 2009; Menges 1995:55). Turkologists use various definitions for describing the Proto-Turkic homeland, but most indicate more or less the same region. While Janhunen (1996: 26, 2015:293) locates the Proto-Turkic homeland fairly precisely in Eastern Mongolia, Róna-Tas (1998:88), in a rather general manner, places the last habitat of the Turkic speakers before the disintegration of the family "in West and Central Siberia and in the region south of it." The latter localization overlaps in large part with that proposed by Tenišev et al. (2006), who associate the Proto-Turkic urheimat with the vast area stretching from the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia to the foothills of the Sayan-Altai Mountains in Southern Siberia. Such a vague localization seems to be quite compatible with the association of at least late Proto-Turkic speakers with nomadic herders. From a historical linguistic viewpoint, the region under discussion appears to be the most probable habitat for a language that is assumed to have been in contact with Old Chinese, Old East Iranian and possibly Tocharian (and, according to some scholars (see Dybo 2007), at the same time reaching the languages far to the north-west, such as Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Samoyedic and Proto-Ugric). An attempt at verifying the homeland by examining archaeological and paleobotanical evidence, as well as the Proto-Turkic roots referring to natural environment, has also been made (Tenišev et al. 2006).
A few noteworthy proposals on the depth of Proto-Turkic, i.e., the time of its primal split into the Bulgar and Common Turkic branches, vary from the 5th century BC (Róna-Tas 1998, based on contact linguistics) to the period between 120 BC and the beginning of the first millennium AD (Mudrak 2009, based on glottochronological analysis of Turkic morphology and historical phonology) to the period between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD (Dybo 2007, based on contact linguistics and lexicostatistics).
The proposals regarding the Proto-Turkic homeland can be seen in the context of the possible Proto-Turkic affiliation with the Xiongnu, a nomadic group that lived north and northwest of China in the first centuries before and after the common era. Several dozen words used by the Xiongnu were recorded in Old Chinese texts such as Shiji (or the Records of the Grand Historian) and the Book of Han, and based on these few words, contemporary scholars have speculated on what language the Xiongnu may have spoken. Various hypotheses were put forward during the 20th century, yet the assumption that the Xiongnu, or at least some of them, were affili ated with Turkic-speaking groups has gained the widest acceptance among scholars (Ramstedt 1922; Basin 1948; Gabain 1949; Šervašidze 1986). This affiliation is based on direct linguistic evidence, i.e., comparing the Xiongnu words in Old Chinese texts with Proto-Turkic, supplemented by historical data that connects the Xiongnu and the subsequent Turkic peoples. Recently, the most reliable Xiongnu words that are comparable with reconstructed Proto-Turkic stems have been outlined by Dybo (2007). Janhunen (2015) also recognizes this affiliation. In short, although we can never exclude that the Xiongnu were a multi-ethnic confederation, it is very likely that their core was Turkic-speaking.2
Different historical and archaeological sources give clues about the subsistence patterns of the Xiongnu. Old Chinese histories (including Shiji) emphasize that the Xiongnu were nomadic pastoralists that bred different kinds of domestic ungulates, namely horses, cattle, sheep and camels (Watson 1961). On the other hand, there are multiple indications in Chinese chronicles (including Shiji, Hou Hanshu (or the Book of the Later Han) and notes on the Han annals by Yen Shi-ku) that the Xiongnu were familiar with agriculture, including millet farming (Bičurin 1950; Davydova & Šilov 1953; Davydova 1985). The written sources, however, do not indicate clearly whether it was the Xiongnu themselves or their Chinese captives who were involved in agricultural activities. From an archaeological perspective, although there is about 1000 years of nomadic life in Mongolia beforehand, the Xiongnu period is the first time we have any evidence of agriculture in the region. Agricultural tools and millet grains dating to this period have been found, as well as some isotopic evidence for millet consumption (William Taylor, p.c., Jena, May 2017). It is commonly agreed that the Xiongnu economy was based on pastoralism and had an agricultural component. However, the question of how important the latter was remains open (see Wright et al. 2009; Kradin & Kang 2011; Machicek 2011; Spengler et al. 2016 for further discussion). Given all these observations, it is interesting to examine whether historical linguistic analysis of Turkic subsistence terms can support the association of Proto-Turkic with the Xiongnu.
2. Dybo (2007) shows that the Turkic affiliation is valid, first of all, for the late Xiongnu, while some early "Xiongnu" words may have belonged to an Eastern Iranian (Khotan Saka?) language. There is also a hypothesis by Pulleyblank (1962), which was supported by Vovin (2000, 2002), that the Xiongnu were a Yeniseian-speaking people. An agnostic view of the linguistic affiliation of the Xiongnu is presented in Doerfer (1973).
3. Pastoralist vocabulary in Proto-Turkic
Below I list some of the most relevant Turkic pastoralist terms. To give a more de tailed picture, I distinguish between Proto-Turkic and Common Turkic levels. The former label is used when a root occurs in both major subdivisions of the family: the "Standard" Turkic languages, like Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh etc., and the very specific Bulgar branch, which is represented by its only living language, Chuvash, as well as rather poor lexical data from the extinct Bulgar dialects preserved mainly as loanwords in Hungarian. The label "Common Turkic" means that the word is not attested in Bulgar and hence should be technically attributed to the time after the split of Proto-Turkic. However, due to scarcity of evidence from the Bulgar branch, it is common practice in the field to equate such roots with the Proto-Turkic ones unless a source of borrowing into Turkic has been established.
Robbeets, M. and Savelyev, A., n.d. Language Dispersal Beyond Farming. pp.136,137, 138.
Thank you very much for the video :)
My grand grandmother lived and was a doctor in Turkmenistan during Soviet times. She had to fake her death during an earthquake to flea the country and come back to Russia. Her daughter (my grandma) really liked wearing the tahya hat. She still keeps it. I would really like to go there someday maybe through work, we’ll see.
I think she is more Uzbek than Turkmen because of language like her saying I’m Turkmen same as Americans saying I’m British! Government is much more closer to Turkey than Uzbekistan that’s why there is lots of Turkish companies flights etc! Nice video!
13:20 "Süýtli çaý" or "milk tea" is a default type of tea in Kazakhstan and India, as far as I know. To have the tea without a milk you need to explicitly say so. But in Turkmenistan it's not the default tea type, you need to say that you want a tea with milk.
This female co-host is so lively entertaining 👍👍
Love this episode! This girl has an amazing charm! By the way, i never miss any fun flag Friday! Keep the good work!👍👍👍👍👍👍
Probably my favorite GN episode. I subscribed only recently, and I wanted to go back to the veeeeery beginning and watch every single one. I'm almost caught up! Malika was fantastic. Barbs, you do a great job.
Really enjoyed Malika as co-host for the episode, one of the very best national hosts so far!
When the Seljuk Turks conquered Anatolia they didn't only bring their language & culture but also life-forms with them, Tulips and Turkish Shepherd dog breeds have their origin back in Turkmenistan 🇹🇲🇹🇷
Although Kangal dog came with Kipchaks as they have ancestry in Alabais.
Actually, I've been to Turkmenistan in 2019 on a transit visa as an independent traveler. I was able to move around freely and I even hitchhiked :)
Lucky. My goal in the future is to travel here however visa process is extremally hard and expensive. Wish me good luck.
So much love ❤️ to our neighbor Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
Thank you very much guys. I've been there twice already and going again next week. Fascinating country, I love it very much. I think what you didn't mention is the natural beauty of Turkmenistan. The Darai-dere, the cave systems of Kutinanga, the dinasour imprints on the rocks. Very few people get to see these, these are incredible and utterly mindblowing.
I love Greography now and I really enjoyed this episode! Greetings from Australia!
17:01 "th" is common in the Teke and maybe Yomut tribes. So it's not used in 2 regions of Turkmenistan that makes up to half of the population. So I would highly doubt that "th" is the attribute of the language itself, rather it's attribute of dialects.
This episode was really amazing❤, keep it up GeographyNow!!! :D