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Are you actually half Karachay-Balkar from the North Caucasus? Karachay and Balkar are the same thing. And they have a relatively high frequency of R1a (about 25%).
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Target: rothaer_scaled
Distance: 1.0091% / 0.01009085
39.8 (Balto-)Slavic
39.0 Germanic
19.2 Celtic-like
1.8 Graeco-Roman
0.2 Finnic-like
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Yes, my mother's native tongue is Karachay-Balkar, and they always call themselves "Karachayli." I actually don't know if there is a difference between Karachay and Balkar. She learned Turkish at school. My father's side is not Karachay-Balkar; it's Turkish, though.
Is DNA testing popular in Russia? My match list is full of people with Russianized names, such as Khusainov. My matches seem full of Karachay-Balkar people. Turkish is very few compared to them.
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Well, Karachay-Balkar is a Turkic language, so assimilation in Turkey would not be difficult at all.
Yes, DNA in Russia is not rare, there's even a Russian DNA testing company called Genotek. There are quite a few Northwestern Caucasians on GEDmatch, I've seen dozens of them.
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Yes, Even though it's more similar to Crimean Tatar, it's still very similar to Turkish.
My closest relative on FTDNA is a Karachay American living in New Jersey. When I told her about him, she said that he's my mom's relative, both from her maternal and paternal sides. My biggest surprise is that he didn't score any North Caucasus.
His score:
Anatolia %2
Southern Levant %3
Southern Caucasus %79
East Slavic %5
Myanmar %1
Mongolia %6
Japan %1
Northern India %1
His Y-DNA: G-FT286824
His mtDNA: U1b2
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Did you see any Turkish results with Sephardic Jew results like mine? It's very interesting because a large number of Sephardic Jews emigrated to the Ottoman Empire in the past. Because of that, it really made me wonder: do I really have a Sephardic Jew ancestor, or is it a somewhat off interpretation?
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