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Originally Posted by Llywarch Hen
I know! But the Finnic distribution can't be understood without some showing of the Turkic settlement. The book as a whole doesn't concern itself with Tatars, Bashkirs or Chuvash - they're in a separate volume which I haven't found yet.
There is of course a large Mordva/Mari component in the Chuvash, and the Tatars have very many non-Turkic elements. There's an Ugric dimension as well, of course... Fascinating area.
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Yes, the area is the point of contact between the Turkics and the Ugro-Finnics.