Burtas ( Russian : Буртасы , Burtasy ; Chuvash : Пăртассем , Părtassem ; Tatar : Бортаслар , Bortas lar , بُرطاس ) were a tribe of uncertain ethnolinguistic affiliation inhabiting the steppe region north of the Caspian Sea in medieval times (modern Penza Oblast , Ulyanovsk Oblast and Saratov Oblast of the Russian Federation ). They were subject to the Khazars .
5-566: In the 1380s or earlier at least part of them settled in Temnikov Principality . The Tatar-speaking Burtashi ethnic group is sometimes mentioned in forums. The ethnic identity of the Burtas is disputed, with several different theories ranging from them being a Uralic tribal confederacy (probably later assimilated to Turkic language), and therefore perhaps the ancestors of the modern Moksha people . Some scholars maintain that
10-708: The Burtas are supposed to be Turkic-speaking and ethnically related to the Volga Bulgars. Recently some scholars have suggested that the Burtas were Alans or another Iranian ethnolinguistic group. An Alanic ( Sarmatian ) origin would also explain their name as furt / fort ('big river' in Middle Iranian language or 'beehive' in Turkic language ) and the Alanic endonym as . Some Soviet and modern Russian historians such as A.E Alikhova and A.N.Gren connected
15-463: The Burtas to the Chechens and noted that their neighbour Avars call them "Burti". Nikolai Ashmarin believed that the word Mordas - i.e. Mordvins - comes from the ethnonym Burtas since they divide themselves into Erzya and Moksha . The transition took place through a linguistic transition typical for Bulgars ( Ogurs ) and Oguzes , where the typically Kypchak "M" turns into "B" and "P":
20-511: The Tatars to Mordas , then to Mordva , where the word bort < mord , as in the word Udmort ( Udmurt ) means a person, sanskrit : त्रिमूर्ति ( tri mūrti) and as - a tribe . In the European part of Russia there are quite a lot of surnames "Mordasov" and "Burtasov", as well as the names of the settlements of Burtasy and Mordasy, Mordasovo. This article related to an ethnic group
25-550: The word " I am " ( oguzes and ogurs ) even in ancient times, they pronounced Bӓ(n) , and kipchaks – Mӓn . Tat. men , chuv. pin, turk. bin - "thousand"; tat. milәsh , chuv. pilesh - "mountain ash"; tat. mәçә , chuv. pĕşi, pĕşuk - "cat"; tat. mich. , chuv. pichev - "harness, harness", etc. In Tatar, even in Russian borrowings, instead of the initial sound "p" is "m": oven - pech > mich, barrel - bochka > michke. The Volga Bulgarian word " Burtas " passed through
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