The Sound of the Shatuo Turkic / Öngüt language (Sample Text)

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let’s learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this. I hope you have a great day! Stay happy! Please support me on Patreon! Please support me on Ko-fi Special Thanks to Шамиль Гутаев :D Language family: Turkic LINKS: The Shatuo (also transcribed as Sha-t’o) were a Turkic tribe that heavily influenced northern Chinese politics from the late ninth century through the tenth century. They are noted for founding three, Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han, of the five dynasties and one, Northern Han, of the ten kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Shatuo tribe descended mainly from Western Turkic Chuyue tribe, who in turn belonged to a group of four Chuy tribes, collectively known as Yueban. The Yueban state had survived to the end of 480s, until its independence was destroyed by the Tiele. After the fall of the state, the Yuebans formed four tribes - Chuyue, Chumi, Chumuhun and Chuban. These tribes became major players in the later First Turkic Khaganate and thereafter. Chuyue and Chumi did not belong to the dominant Onoq (Ten Arrows) Union, whereto belonged Chumukun and Chuban. Other sources derived the Shatuo origins from the Tiele. The epitaph of Shatuo Li Keyong, a late-Tang military commissioner (jiedushi), states that his clan’s progenitor was “Yidu, Lord of the Xueyantuo state, an unrivaled general“ (益度、薛延陀國君、無敵將軍). However, other Chinese chroniclers traced the Shatuo’s origins to a Tiele chief named *Bayar (拔也 Baye) ~ *Bayïrku (拔也古 Bayegu). Nevertheless, Song historian Ouyang Xiu rejected the Bayïrku origin of Shatuo; he pointed out that the Bayïrku were contemporaries, not primordial ancestors, of the Shatuo’s reigning clan Zhuxie, and that this Western Turkic kingroup adopted Shatuo as tribal name and Zhuxie as surname after their chief Jinzhong (盡忠; lit. “Loyal to the Utmost“) had moved into Beiting Protectorate, in Tang Dezong’s time (r. 780 - 804). Öngüts (Shatuo, White Tatars, Tenduk). Important allies of Genghis Khan and later marriage relatives of the yuan emperors, the Öngüts first appear in Chinese records as the Shatuo (Chinese: sand slope) tribe of the Western Turkic Confederation. In the 7th century, they settled around Barkol (Eastern Xinjiang) under the protectorate of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618-907). The weakening of Tang, the leaders of the Shatuo served the dynasty as allies. By the 9th century, the Chateaux were scattered in small settlements in Northern China, from Taiyuan to Shanxi province, through southwestern Inner Mongolia to Gansu. While the Tang dynasty was dying under the blows of the rebellious peasants, Li Keyong, a Shatuo chief who received the name of the Tang dynasty Li, built up a military force of 10,000 Shatuo horsemen. In 923, son of Li defeated a new dynasty founded by rebellious peasants and became Emperor of the revived Tang dynasty. The dynasty was generally Chinese in organization, but the Shatuo retained their Turkic language and culture. The Shatuo generals overthrew the Li family and established the Later Jin (937-947) and Later and Northern Han (947-979) dynasties. The main Shatuo groups that settled in Lintao (Gansu province) and Yanmen (Daixian in Northern Shanxi) eventually submitted to the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1126). If you are interested to see your native language/dialect to be featured here. Submit your recordings to crystalsky0124@. Looking forward to hearing from you!