Although I do not like the idea of an original language as in original Turkish,come to think of it, Gokturk was more original. For example, for us lance is 'mizrak', which is not Turkish by definition; it starts with 'm'. We also have 'sungu', which is Turkish. Whereas we cannot figure out where this 'sungu' comes, for Gokturk speakers, speakers of old Turkish or Turkic, it was easy, since 'sunu' meant lance. Another example would be 'oksuz'(without mother and/or father). We cannot see the relationship between 'ana' (mother) and oksuz. But, for old Turkish speakers it was obvious, since og meant mother.