Can Turks & Turkmens Understand Old Turkic

Can Turkish and Turkmen speakers understand Old Turkic (the earliest attested form of Turkic)? Divided into different stages, Old Turkic refers to a collection of several closely related Common Turkic branches. In this video, Güneş will read some short paragraphs from the different stages of Old Turkic, and Bilge (Turkish speaker) and Ataş (Turkmen speaker) will see how well they can understand it. Dating back to the 7th Century AD, we will start with the Köktürk (Göktürk) language. Kokturk is the language that was used in the oldest known written Turkic Language and the name comes from the Göktürk Khaganate, which is also referred to as the First Turkic Empire. The script used for the Old Turkic languages at this stage is also referred to as Göktürk or Orkhon script. The name Orkhon comes from the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early inscriptions were discovered. The next Old Turkic stage that we focused on starts at around the 9th century (The Uighur stage). The Uighur or Uyghur Khaganate was a tribal co