User:Defrim

Codex cumanicus cannot be the direct prove, because the book was completed circa 1330 CE,almost a 100 years after when the Cumans were defeated and dispersed by the mongols in 1237-1241 CE. Sure the book has many articles completed over years but that is a hot debate among the academics, and no one was certain about the exact time when particular articles of the book were written.Also the book was translated into two languages, one is Cuman and one is Persian, the word Cumania at this time means the land not the people, the word Turk was also very often misleading as many states would simply call all the nomadic people Turks.

The remaining Cumans were assimilated into the golden horde whose origins included the Kypchaks and mongols and kazan bulgars, other books suggest that cumans spoke similar language with Pechenegs, keep in mind the Pechenegs spoke Oghuz Turks, a different branch compare to Kypchak Turk, again on one was certain about the language spoken by the Pechenegs. Any way the existing evidences are all but speculations, there needs to be more evidence to determine the languages spoken by Cumans. But either way the Cumans were likely to be descended from samartians genetically, they may or may not adopted the turkic language (but the turkic language is likely to be the lingua franca of the Cuman-Kypchak confederation), and spoken by the rulling elites. The Cumans were only loosely allied confederations of tribes as do the Kypchaks and each tribe were likely to persist their own culture and language, as happened when the Cumans fled to Hungary they were accompanied by large numbers of Iranic speaking Jassic people and the later seems just as numerous as the former. Also the Alans also living at the steppe north of caucasus, adjacent to the southern russian steppe, which is also a big tribe confederation and they certainly spkoe Iranic language.