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It should be noted that there are several thousand people of kerey/kerait tribe in Kaakhstan
Rewrite
I just rewrote this article based on the reliable sources I could find. Most of the previous version was Original Research, without any sources. If anyone wants to add some of that again, please make sure that your claims can be verified. --Latebird 20:59, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Kerait and Kalmyks (Oirad)
Why nobody mentioned that Kalmyk Torgud Khans are Kerait? Kalmyk Khans are descents of Wang Khan. It is the same Dynasty which ruled Steppes for centuries. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.31.163 (talk) 02:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Kerait and Kharot
Can it be that some group at least one tribe of these turko-mongolian tribe was left in central Asia and their descends are today the paashtun kharots/karots??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.59.96.79 (talk • contribs) --Latebird 16:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- For now, those are just speculations, which have no place in Misplaced Pages. Once you can find reliable published sources that present a credible argument to support such a theory, then we'll consider the question. --Latebird 16:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Turkic origin of Kerait
I doubt in mongolian origin of kerey\kerait tribe. First of all "kerait" is a mongolian adaptation of turkic name "kerey". The -t ending is plural part of the word, same as english -s and turkic -lar\ler. The name itself is of turkic origin, probably derived from word "qara" (black). The explanation of such name is that first kereys could have black hair contrary to blonde sary-kipçaks & sary-uysuns, "sary" (yellow, blonde).
Kazakhs usually call kereys as "qara-kerey" (black kerey).
Kereys could be a part Uyghur people, since one myth says that one uyghur had 8 sons, all of them had black hair and thus they were called kerey\kereyler (turk.) or kereyt (mong.).
Islamic historian Rashid-Addin wrote that kereys have several clans including Sakhĭyat and Dubout. These two clans were interpretated as ancestors of Sakha\Yakut and Tuvan\Uryankhai peoples.
Regards, Iliassh (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 20:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- Does your source explicitly say that Sakhiyat and Dubout are their ancestors for certain? If not, then your changes would mean to sell speculation as fact. Your explanations above look very much like original research, which makes your article additions suspect as well. Don't even try to draw conclusions about the origin of names and words if you're not a trained historical linguist, because you'll almost always go wrong. In this case, your arguments prove exactly nothing, because "qara"/"khar" means black in Mongolian as well. --Latebird (talk) 04:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
- I can give you a pretty scholarly source saying that Mongols like to adopt foreign names - Turkic and Sanskrit ones in the past, Tibetan ones at present. Yaan (talk) 13:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
You really believed in what Muslim historians said. --Enerelt (talk) 00:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Where on the map?
It's too hard to find Kerait on the map, I can't spot them..--CzarKirk (talk) 22:43, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
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