(عربي) According to Wiktionary, the origin of the word Turk goes back to the word “root”, “ancestry” or “race” in the old Turkic, the language of the Orkhon inscriptions. But according to the inscriptions, it’s clear that the term isn’t used as an umbrella term for all the Turkic peoples. It might be similar to … تابع قراءة Turkish identity according to the Orkhon inscriptions