From Ukraine to Scythia and deeper in time

When linguists, in the 21st century, tried to identify which Turkic subfamily the language of the Khazars belongs to, they constantly faced one scientific problem that cannot be solved in the manner they followed. This problem starts from the wrong guess that the "cognate" of the Khazar language, as some of the linguists believe, is Chuvash. And this guess is what has made the scholars get stuck, though the solution of the problem is much simpler than can be even imagined. It lies not in searching for the Khazar language's proper "cognate", but in properly identifying, from the very beginning, as in every such research, its language family. The text narrated in the video ( with minor differences; each new timestamp is a new slide on the screen ): ( 00:01 ) Hello Dear Viewers. We are continuing our investigation on the history of Ukraine. In this video, we will cover a couple of topics, one of which will be the language of the people called in history the Khazar...