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?
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?