The Turkish sun theory once claimed all languages came from central Asia
The Sun Language Theory was a 1930s nationalist linguistic hypothesis proposing that all human languages originated from a single proto-Turkic mother tongue developed in Central Asia.
In the 1930s, Turkish scholars promoted the Sun Language Theory, which claimed that all human communication began as primitive grunts toward the sun. This theory suggested that early Turkic peoples developed the first spoken words, making Turkish the root of every global language.
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