How come Ossetes speak Iranic language and are descendants of Scytho-Sarmatian Alans and indigenous Caucasic people?
How come Ossetes speak Iranic language and are descendants of Scytho-Sarmatian Alans and indigenous Caucasic people?
No selfie, but I have a YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvZHFvOxnU
Ossetian (Digor dialect), which is the descendant of Scythian.
He didnt, he just said they speak euro version of Iranic, he clearly was knowlable how Persian sounds.
My specualtion is that protoslavic reminded him on Persian by sound.
They were Indoerupeans, because genetic show it, and indo-europeans have mixed with asians in asia, but Scythia/Saramtia term from Greeks/Romans comes from Europe.
Romans considered everything east of Germany and north of Dacia as Scythians/Sarmatians, they are Slavs
persianized native caucasians? are you kidding me? the ossetians maternally are genetically linked with their ancestors, and R1a is a west eurasian haplogroup not eastern.
In a study conducted in 2014 by VV Ilyinskyon on bone fragments from 12 Alanic burials on the Don River, 6 samples turned out belonging to yDNA Haplogroup G2 and 6 samples belonging to mtDNA I. This is a strong argument for direct Alan ancestry of Ossetians and against the hypothesis that Ossetians are alanized Caucasic Speakers, since the major Haplogroup among Ossetians is G2
https://www.academia.edu/7061155/%D0...D0%A1._312-315
I have posted link that proves that ossetians have nothing to do with scythians, its a myth.
Sythians in eastern parts(asia) had male East euro ancestry, and some were mixed with asians, but they are not Ossetians.
Ossetians are Caucasus people, scythians were large group that spread from germania all the way to asia, same like slavs today
I was talking about Turanians who keep claiming that the Scythians, Sarmatians, Parthians and etc were Turkic, and linguists confirm that they are a iranic people. Scythians were long gone before the Slavs settled in what is now Russia, Ukraine and etc, and genetically, all slavic peoples, with the exception of southern slavs, are genetically close to one another.