Ottomans: jambia,hanjar or....

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Originally Posted by Sancar

You are welcome Oliver, I'd like to help you wth pronounciation but I have no idea how to write phonetically. I can only say kama sounds exactly like the Japanese sickle weapon kama(both Altaic languages)

hey kama kindjal kinzhal ect come form the same turco-mongol rout words..
kazakh- kanzhar.. turkish- kama, aziri-xhansar, mongolian- chinzhaal, uzbek xhanjar.... russian form monglian- kindjal..

there is not a single word in common between japanese and turkish accept maybe japanese loan worlds like sushi..

japaese is not an "altaic" languages - that was an unfounded theory based on linguists trying to find a precursor language to both korean and japanese..

korean and japanese have ainu influences.. which is in its self a language isolate and not related to their languages either..
so there was ideas that maybe ainu is related to japanese and japanese to korean ect and maybe ainu is related some siberian languages .. but there is no evidence of this..

And in turn korean and japanese dont seem to have recent common roots either!!
japanes and korean are classed and unique language isolates..

it is presumed that they originate somewhere on the mainland of china and their related languages have disappeared with the spread of chinese languages.. a pattern that can be followed with other languages from the region