Why didn't Old Turkic become a lingua franca of Eurasia?
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For the same reason Mongolian didn't.
>>18451508Because Trukics naturally assimilate to whatever they conquer. Most of central Asia is Muslim and uses the Russian script(I forgot how its spelled), and the Turks are only 15% Turkic so it doesn't even count
>>18451538But Mongols conquered Turks and their descendants spoke Turkic.
>>18451508Well it kinda did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagatai_language
>>18451508The Frankistanis set sail towards the horizon and dethroned Asia. Also gunpowder enabled sedentary states to fight back against the nomads.
>>18451508I'm actually working on a mongol modernity of sorts.
>>18451538>15% TurkicThis implies that Turks aren't steppe muttssame with Indo-Aryans actually but the world isn't ready for the truth of Finnish ancestry>>18452284steppe people cultural hierachy
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>>18452284Because Mongolians are even more prone to cultural assimilation than the Turkics. Despite conquering all of Asia, mongolian culture per se only survived in the very mongolian heartland, all the rest merged with local cultures.