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On 4/10/2020 at 1:18 PM, Hassouni said:
Only the word is. Yogurt has been a thing from the Middle East and Caucasus through South Asia long before the Turks showed up...hence the words for yogurt in Arabic, Persian, Georgian, Armenian, and Indic languages being indigenous.
That makes sense. Even kaymak has an arabic version in ashta. Also regarding shishbarak/aushak almost every culture has dumplings so it seems silly that Persians or Afghans couldn't invent them on their own.
On 4/10/2020 at 1:18 PM, Hassouni said:
Only the word is. Yogurt has been a thing from the Middle East and Caucasus through South Asia long before the Turks showed up...hence the words for yogurt in Arabic, Persian, Georgian, Armenian, and Indic languages being indigenous.
That makes sense. Even kaymak has an arabic version in asthma. Also regarding shishbarak/aushak almost every culture has dumplings so it seems silly that Persians or Afghans couldn't invent them on their own.
