Origin of the
Ottoman People
If we may judge of the purity of
race by purity of language, the Yakuts, who inhabit the
shores of the Lena, must be considered as of unmixed
Turkish race. Their speech, as M. Julius Klaproth has
proved, is nearly that of the Osmanli (Ottoman)
themselves, and it has been said that a Turk of Stambul
would be understood among the Yakuts on the Lena.
Probability is in favor of the opinion of Blumenbach,
that a long residence in the climate of North-eastern Asia
has changed the features of the race. The language of the
Yakuts being unmixed, we may be allowed to infer from
this circumstance the purity of their stock, though their
features are those of the Mongoles and Kalmucs.
Report of the annual meeting, Issues
1-2 British Association for the Advancement of Science J.
Murray., 1833
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