Search for a Probable Linguistic and Cultural Kinship Between the Turkish People of Asia and the Native Peoples of Americas

Authors : Polat KAYA

Pages : 650-678

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Publication Date : 1986-12-20

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study tries to show probable linguistic and cultural kinship between the Turkish people in Asia and the Native Peoples of Americas, i.e., the north, central and south Americas. In this study, we have shown that the use of the Turkish words `ata` and `apa` for `father and ancestor` and `ana` for `mother` and their derivatives are quite common in the languages of considerable number of the Native Peoples of Americas. The study shows that these three words, i.e., `ata`, `apa` and `ana` are probably among the oldest living words in the human languages. In addition, this study points out some other words, aspects of languages and cultures of some of the Native Peoples of Americas which seem to be common with the Turkish people of Asia. The purpose of this study was to indicate with evidence the presence of correlation between the languages of the Native Peoples of Americas and the Turks in Asia and hopefully to attract the attention of linguistic scholars to carry out further studies to possibly illuminate past background of both the Native Peoples of Americas and the Turks of Asia.
Keywords : Turks, Linguistics, Culture, Asia, Americas, History