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Sarmatians or the Savromatians. Analysis of their tribal ethnic names shows
that they were all Turkic-speaking; indeed the works of numerous
contemporary scholars and specialists demonstrate convincingly that the
Scythians were a Turkic people, and this is directly confirmed by the
documentary evidence in Western European written records from the Middle
Ages. Moreover, the Scythians were anthropologically speaking
predominantly of the Europid type. The primeval habitat of the Scythian
tribes in Europe, including Huns, Avars, Bulgars and others, was the Middle
Volga Region and the Kama River Basin, where they appeared probably no
later than the third millenium BC. Some of these tribes subsequently settled in
the wide expanse of land between the Volga and the Don, an area they began
to call Asia. At some point, evidently around the end of the third millenium
BC, tribes from the Middle Volga Region migrated to Central, Southern and
Northern Europe, passing as they went through the Upper Volga and the lands
surrounding the Baltic Sea. * In all probability these tribes were the
progenitors and guardians of the so-called Battle-Axe Culture. † At a later date
these Turkic-speaking peoples from the Middle Volga and Kama Basin
Regions began also to migrate, via the Sea of Azov and Black Sea regions, to
Southern, Central and Northern Europe. In this way, since earliest antiquity
the dominant peoples of Europe stemmed from Turkic-speaking tribes.
Taking all factors into consideration, it seems likely that the greater part
of the European territory into which the Turkic-speaking peoples migrated
would have been inhabited by aboriginal populations speaking autochthonous
languages which were inflected. Clues, albeit extremely rare and meagre, that
these lands were indeed inhabited by such tribes and peoples are occasionally
to be found in the written records of ancient writers. The theory that the
languages spoken by such folk would have been inflected, or fusional, rests
on the following propositions.
As has already been pointed out, the only written sources to have been
discovered in Europe dating back to antiquity are in Greek and Latin even
though, based on ethnonyms, onomastic and other linguistic studies a
significant proportion of the population at this time must have been Turkicspeaking.
But from the 10 th to 12 th Centuries AD onwards written sources
start to appear in a variety of inflected tongues which form the basis for all
languages spoken throughout Europe today. To be precise, no traces have
come down to us today of any inflected language before the 10 th to 12 th
centuries. Moreover, at a slightly earlier time than this, sources in Ancient
Greek disappear from the record, followed after a short while by Latin. Later
still Turkic onomastics and terms vanish from the Latin sources: all that
* In Russian, the term ‘Pribaltika’ usually refers today to the three Baltic States of Lithuanian, Latvia and
Estonia. However, in the broader topographical and ethnographical senses it may also refer to all those lands
having access to the Baltic Sea, thus also Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Poland, North West
Russia itself and Sweden
† Also known as Corded Ware Culture and Single Grave Culture, names reflecting different aspects in the
archeological record of its artefacts and burial customs.