Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Classifying shashka--a serious discussion of typology

ariel · 9th August 2016, 02:41 PM

The solution to this conundrum is simple: Uzbeki belongs to the Turcik group of languages. Thus, sword is kilij, or ( locally) Klych, and knife is P'chak.
Tajiks are ethnic Persians. For them, sword is shamshir, and knife is kord.

9th August 2016, 02:41 PM	#6
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	The solution to this conundrum is simple: Uzbeki belongs to the Turcik group of languages. Thus, sword is kilij, or ( locally) Klych, and knife is P'chak. Tajiks are ethnic Persians. For them, sword is shamshir, and knife is kord.