#turkics

[songs-of-the-east]

Tӧӧlӧs Turkic girl from Altai, Russia

[thyinum]

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

[turk1cculture]

TURKIC TRADITIONAL CLOTHES VS OTOYOMEGATARİ

[salialenart]

" I know she is proud. How not? what else was left her but pride? i know she is strong. How not? the Dothraki despise weakness. if Daenerys had been weak, she would have perished with Viserys."

— Tyrion vi, a Dance with Dragons

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This piece was quick and so pleasing to draw because I have draw her in traditional Kazakh dress)I think Dothraki need more colours in dressings and better braids🐲

[joelchaimholtzman]

Happy to share a painting I made a few years ago!

This is a female warrior from the medieval Volga Bulgar era; Steppe warriors from the east who settled in Central Europe.

Hope you like it!

Best,

JCH

[meirimerens]

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

[kocalls]

Teslim ol, O’na güven. 🙏🏻

[mapsontheweb]

Turkic Languages - 2024 Edition

[safije]

Cats in Traditional Kyrgyz Folk Clothing

[zvaigzdelasas]

personally i think it's pretty cool how quora has just automated its users posting factual inaccuracies & relegated it to a bot now

[songs-of-the-east]

Qaraqalpaq Girl

[tomokyuw]

Traditional Turkic Outfits

[saharathorn]

Kruszyniany Mosque, Kruszyniany, Poland.

Formerly a primarily Lipka Tatar village, Kruszyniany’s mosque is first mentioned in historical records from 1717.

[burgerlabs]

remember my amazigh queer flag? yeah well i borrowed that idea from myself and made a turkic (kazakh, uzbek kyrgyz etc) variant for myself cause i dont rly ever see much turkic queer or lgbt stuff. gotta look out for myself .. or something

[joelchaimholtzman]

Here is a painting I made a few years ago + some edits.

This is a female warrior from the medieval Volga Bulgar era; Steppe warriors from the east who settled in Central Europe.

Hope you like it!

Best,

JCH

[bobemajses]

This artifact, an ancient Roman brick with Jewish symbols (probably a burial plaque), was found in one of the graves at a necropolis from the 8th-9th century, at Čibska šuma archaeological site near Čelarevo in northern Serbia. At the site, alongside Turkic and Slavic graves, some bricks were also found with engraved inscriptions translated as Jehuda or Yahweh and Israel. According to archaeologists, they belongs to a nomadic tribe of unknown origin, that practiced Judaism. These people came from the east, most likely from the Pontic steppes and Central Asia along with Avars and settled in vast plains of the Pannonian basin in present-day northern Serbia and eastern Hungary.