The Turkic Language of Moldova - Gagauz (Honourable Mentions 'G')

What happened to that boy who wanted to see the world ?

Tatars have nothing to do with bulgarians. Who is related to Bulgaria on the Volga is the chuvash people

Old Bulgars are fare fetched.

They are either Gök Oguz/Uz or simple just called after a Selcuk leader Keykavuz. Bulgar Turkish is more different. Gaguz speak a mix of oguz and kipcak.

No wr do not speak the same Turkish in Balkan.

Love your shirt.ku e ke blerë?

thanks

Hello, my grandmother is Gacal.
There are Gacals who live in East Thrace. They speak a Turkish that so much close to Gagauz language.
They put verb first to sentence too in traditional speaking way.

Also they use "be" as question edition. For example:

Gitti mi be? (Did he go?)
(Yes we use "mı/mi" and "be" together. Personally if i dont use "be" in a question i dont feel like i asked a question in traditional speaking way.)

I think Gacal/Gagauz language is Dialect of Rumeli(Balkan) Turkish.

Song is adaptation of Đurđevdan by Bijelo Dugme.

bulgars are ancient turkic people do not confuse with modern day bulgarians

Русский подерживается потому что Гагаузия как приднестровье. Точка давления и раздробления в российской политике.

the Seljuk Türks 🤖

I feel like Gagauz are similar to the Urum speaking people of Ukraine and Georgia. Their language is just too similiar to the modern turkish even the word father "Boba" which is an arabic word is present, if they were a ancient turkic tribe they would have used "Ata" instead. So I believe they are turkified moldovans or ukrainians who kept their religious practices, their position in fringes of Ottoman empire borders also proves that IMO.

Wow as a Turkish man I am very surprised how this language is mutually intelligible for us

As a linguist, did you also notice that even Balkan Turkish dialect is recorded as a separate language, it also has a ridiculous name "Balkan Gagauz language", it is NOT the Gagauz language but they made it to show like "hey this Balkan Turkish is not actually Turkish but it is a dialect of Gagauz, not Turkish!" :) You know why it is called a separate language :) POLITICS. Even Azerbaijani Turkish doesn't really sound like another language for any Turkish speaker. Even coining the term "Turkic" instead of "Turkish" is also about politics. Turkish is not the name of Anatolian Turks actually. There are Britannica records that many Turkic peoples/values mentioned as "Turkish" rather than Turkic since the original term for all Turks around the world was Turkish, so that what causes all of this mess. The term Turkic was invented around 1900s and it was not actively used until 1960s-70s. Anatolian Turkish still uses the term Türk for both Turkish and Turkic, so it is "Turkish" for all or "Turkic" for all for Anatolian Turks, how to distinguish then? It is easy, we call Anatolian Turkic, Azerbaijani Turkic etc so it goes like Crimean Turkic, Balkan Turkic, you can now exchange Turkic with Turkish, it goes the same way, so we use Türk only, some tried to coin an equal term to English term "Turkic", namely "Türki" (it means "Turkish/Turkic" both in Persian and Arabic), but they are not even aware that even in the late Ottoman era, the term "Türki" meant literally "Turkish" or "Turkic", so both :D But it was ignored or even refused by such strong scholars like Taşağıl, Ortaylı, Karatay etc. since they knew that the coining the term Turkic in English was a political trick. So it is so simple. To avoid calling them Turkish instead of Turkic, they named it "Balkan Gagauz" and "Gagauz" languages. To show like "look! they are not Turkish!". People generally also forget that Crimean Tatar is also same-like language for Turkish, it is as close as Azerbaijani for Anatolian Turks. In the political arena, intellectual politicians of Turkiye don't call Azerbaijani language "Azeri" or they call it Crimean Türk (Turkic/Turkish) or Balkan Türk (Turkic/Turkish). For example, the intelligibility towards Crimean Turkic/Turkish from Kazan Tatars is around the same level that the intelligibility percentage towards Anatolian or Azerbaijani or Balkan Turkic/Turkish.

You should mention that as Orthodox Christians they (the Gagauz) call their god "Allaa" like other Muslim Turkic peoples who call it both "Alla" or "Allah" :D It shows that they were Muslims until a recent era, so they were probably PROBABLY (NO OFFENSE) "forcefully" converted to Orthodox Christianity by Russian effort to Christianize recently acquired lands (from the Ottomans). But they were recorded as "Hasli Bulgar" in Turkish annals/chronicles around the region that's true. Other than Allaa, as in the article you read in Gagauz in the ending part of the video, there are other Perso-Arabic loanwords in Gagauz, just as same as Ottoman/Istanbul Turkish (which today Anatolian Turks use as their standard language even though there are more than 7-8 main dialects which are really distinct from Istanbul Turkish, so any foreign speaker who knows Turkish, i.e. Istanbul Turkish, standard Turkish, they could not understand other dialects, like even 10%, for real), Istanbul's royal Ottoman language by the way, based on a Balkan variety/dialect of Old Anatolian Turkish dialects.

Ağlıcam

Pieces of sht gagauz. Live in Moldova and learn russian? get the fck to Russia if they want to be there.

if you get rid of the russian impact the gagauz language is exactly like the tracian turkish dialect, this is how my village speaks turkish

I UNDERSTOOD 100%

Sounds like Romanian Turkish.

Gagauz is Balkan Turkish Language 🈴

I understood %100 as a native turkish speaker. It sounds like bulgarian turkish.

I’m from Uzbekistan
Özbekistandan salamlar olsun, yashasin qardashlar 🇺🇿

They are Serbian,in Serbia they are called Tunguzija ......if they song "durgevdan".....

There are Tatars and Crimean Tatars who have distinct Turkic languages. So as Gagauz people speak an Oghuz language, the name "Old Bulgar" is probably misleading, they are probably not Kipchak or Kuman as they claim. Today, only one Bulgar/Oghur language spoken is Chuvash language. Other weird thing is that, it seems like Gagauz and Turkish language is splitted only some centuries ago.

By the way, there was Karamanli people on central Anatolia who used to speak Turkish but have Orthodox Christian religion. They have a kind of exiled to Greece during the population exchange between Greeks and Turks.

Im Uzbek from Qarluq(karluk) turkic branch and Gagauz really sounds like how Turkish people speak.
Love from Uzbekistan❤🇺🇿

Gagauz means Oghuz, Oghuz tribes of Turks. We Azerbaijan Turks can understand completely the Gagauz Turks, we are one❤️

I'm turkish but from the north of Bulgaria and this is precisely how we speak, at least in my village (there are different dialects in most villages) 😅 I've never heard any other language sound as much as us haha

Thank you for covering my people. I was born in Moldova, my family immigrated to the United States when I was 11 years old. Right now in my thirties, I'm trying to salvage any memory of the language I heard in my childhood.

Chok saa olunuz, bir byuk ish yapersiniz!!!! Kovet size hem kaavilik!!! Alla korusun sizi!!!!

I understand everything as a turkish speaker

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Saa olun! Thank you!!!

They were settled in Moldova by the Russian empire , imported from Bulgaria , so it makes sense they are Old Bulgars , explains why they are christian , they were in Bulgaria way before the muslim turks invaded the balkans , 1355.

There is no such thing as Moldovan language. "Moldovan" language was invented by the soviet bolsheviks, who wanted to break the ties of the Romanians in Bessarabia with the Romanians in actual-day Romania. Moldovan is Romanian written in Cyrillic alphabet and some words from Russian and Ukrainian. As a conclusion: "Moldovan language" is just the Romanian language with the moldavian accent.

Are they really Christian?

Нябэрсыныз?

Гÿн айдын

Side note. You mentioned the relationship of the Gagauz language to Tatar and Bashkir. The neighbouring Chuvash are of the same Turkic sub-branch, and like the Gagauz they are also Eastern Orthodox. Cheers.

Cool

Hello from japan 🇯🇵🇹🇷
We have a conversation with a Gagauz teacher on our channel, you can get interesting information. There is also a Gagauz Basic phrases video. We will be glad to see you. There are also subtitles in English.

It wasn't so much that they converted. So this weird thing happened where the Russians forcefully deported and ethnically cleansed the Tatars and Nogai Tatars that lived in what is now Gagauzia. Then replaced the Turkic people that they had forcefully deported with Christian people.. that were also Turkic..

Fascinating history. I wonder how many Gagauz see themselves as Turks. I know for a fact some do. But i imagine some might also actually not like being called Turks due to associating it with Islam or neighboring people using Turk more as a slur or just a general word fot Muslim. I imagine it also made them much easier to assimilate. I find it fascinating they even managed to keep their language.

Meanwhile Crimean Karaites (practice a form of Judaism) are extremely proud of their Turkic origin

Tüm dünyadaki Türk kardeşlerime selam olsun ! 🦝❤️😇🍀

судя по машинкам на заднем плане - наш человек ))))) Нива, Чайка, РаФик, Краз )) лайк!

I understand 100% bcs I am gagauz

moldovan language actually doesn't exist. we speak romanian in moldova, cause surprise surprise, Moldova is actually Romania

Seviyoruz sizi gagauz soydaslar ❤️

as a pure gaguze i can say that there are actually a lot of words in gaguze that are different in turkish . turkish has a lot of words that have more syllables such as the word thank you. in turish it it Teşekkürler or Teşekkür ederim. in gaguze its just şekkür ederim or in both labguages for short just sau. in pure gagauze dialect we dont have words for a lot of things so we either use russian or turkish fillers depending on your roots or village where your family grew up. we grew up in Chadir-lunga so we speak both russian and gaguze therfore some of our filler words are in russian.