Andrey Tikhomirov - Ethnogenesis of the Turkic peoples. Languages, peoples, migrations, customs

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. Brief data in Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish and Uzbek languages.