The origin of Turkish, and other Turkic languages! Let’s dig into the history of how this language family spread from eastern Mongolia to Turkey and the Balkans! #language #linguistics #turkey #turks #history #balkans #educational | Lite Linguistics

The origin of the word “turkey” is a really fun & bizarre result of a super long game of global telephone. Turkey the country, despite being named Turkey, has no native turkeys. On top of that, the Turks don’t call a turkey, a turkey…they call it a “Hindi”, meaning Indian because they believed the bird to come from India. They weren’t alone in their thinking. France called the bird “poulet d’inde” or chicken from India. In Polish and Ukrainian it’s called “indyk” or Indian bird. In Russian it’s