Re: Need help with Mongolian (Urdu)

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:23

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In article <Dec.27.22.14.52.1992.1477@pilot.njin.net>, hubey@pilot (Hubey) writes:
>Mogul is a variant of Mongol but in this case it's one of mistaken
>identity. Moguls were Turkic not Mongol.

Were they?  I was under the impression that they were Persian.

Why would an invasion by a Turkic group lead to the wide-spread borrowing of
Persian into the local languages?
-- 
Rich Alderson   'I wish life was not so short,' he thought.  'Languages take
                such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
                                                        --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@leland.stanford.edu                              _The Lost Road_

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