“…The two Bugut inscriptions from the First Turkic Khaganate in Mongolia are primary sources for the Turkic history, as well as for the history of Sogdian and Mongolian languages. …”

“…This discovery has many important consequences for linguistic history and history of Central Asia, among which the most important are: first, the fact that the oldest language on the steppe of the 'Ataic' type is Mongolic, and not Turkic, and second that this Mongolic language was the official language of the first Turkic khaganate, which in its turn explains why we have no inscriptions in Old Turkic before the second khaganate…”