WI: More direct Mongolian settlement in the Golden Horde?

The Turco-Mongol tradition in the Golden Horde was primarily established by the acculturation of Cumans and Kipchaks, creating the Tatars as the predominant group inheriting the political and legal institutions of the Mongols while having a Turkic culture.

Later, the Golden Horde was fully Turkicized. The Crimean Khanate and Astrakhan Khanates didn't really speak Mongolian at all (though later Oirat Mongols, the Kalmyks would settle the region in the 1600s, long after the fall of the Mongol khanates).

What if a larger amount of direct Mongol settlement occurred in the Pontic Steppe, leading to Mongol colonies in the Golden Horde that preserved the Mongolian language? Later on, would there be a rivalry between the "New Mongols"/"West Mongols" and their Turkic confederates? How does it play out for the Ottomans, the Russian principalities, and the other hordes to the east such as Chagatai?
 
The Turco-Mongol tradition in the Golden Horde was primarily established by the acculturation of Cumans and Kipchaks, creating the Tatars as the predominant group inheriting the political and legal institutions of the Mongols while having a Turkic culture.

Later, the Golden Horde was fully Turkicized. The Crimean Khanate and Astrakhan Khanates didn't really speak Mongolian at all (though later Oirat Mongols, the Kalmyks would settle the region in the 1600s, long after the fall of the Mongol khanates).

What if a larger amount of direct Mongol settlement occurred in the Pontic Steppe, leading to Mongol colonies in the Golden Horde that preserved the Mongolian language? Later on, would there be a rivalry between the "New Mongols"/"West Mongols" and their Turkic confederates? How does it play out for the Ottomans, the Russian principalities, and the other hordes to the east such as Chagatai?

How much "larger"? Batu had something like 4K Mongols (or perhaps Mongolian families) in his horde and there were not too many Mongols (even if you include nations of the pre-conquest area). Are you talking about the tens of thousands or hundred thousands (hundreds thousands hardly realistic)?

Yasa did not distinguish between the nomadic tribes of Mongolian states so discrimination is unlikely and the tribes local to the region still would remain a majority with, probably, Mongols adopting to their language.

As for their relations, rulers of Chagatai Ulus had been traditional enemies of the descendants of Jochi who ruled the Golden Horde and competition over Transoxania did not improve these relations so I don't see how a somewhat different demographics changes anything.

Probably the same goes for the Russian principalities: why would they care how many true Mongols live in the Volga-Don steppes?
 
Perhaps with more Mongols no need to convert to Islam or perhaps more who stay shamanistic

I'm not sure that shamanism could survive forever and it does not look like there was a pressing need for the rulers of the Golden Horde to convert to anything but probably Islam looked attractive enough for them.
 
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