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vbnetkhio
It isn't so clear cut. Bosniaks from eastern Bosnia have some dialectal and genetic similarities with Sandak. There is also a difference between eastern and western Sandak, the latter has little Albanian influence and it should get it's own average when enough samples are connected.
Also, if we apply this criterium to the Bosniaks, it should be applied to all other averages in the sheet too. And the current sheet is made with respect to ethnic self-identification, not country borders, so it would require a lot of changing.
Most of the scientific papers on the population of B&H sample a lot of Sandak Bosniaks living in Sarajevo, they shouldn't be taken as some measure of quality.
I meant both Y-DNA and atDNA. In scientific and genetic genealogical samples we see a clear general difference between Bosniaks from BiH and Sandak on both Y-DNA and atDNA. The latter population is not Bosniaks. Nobody when thinks about Bosniaks thinks about Sandak. It is only confusing and misleading people. They became Bosniaks by ethnic identification only in recent history because of religious identification with ethnic identities in Western Balkans - Muslims became Bosniaks. In pre-Yugoslavian censuses, Sandak Muslims were ethnically identified mostly as Albanians. We already have a kind of controversial chronology of identification of Muslim Bosniaks as Muslims and then as Bosniaks in BiH. The one with Sandak Muslims is even more complex and adding it up only makes it harder instead of making genetic comparisons easier, its not pragmatic anyway.
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The population of the sanjak of Novi Pazar was ethnically and religiously diverse. In 1878-81, Muslim Slav muhacirs (refugees) from areas which became part of Montenegro, settled in the sanjak. As Ottoman institutions only registered religious affiliation, official Ottoman statistics about ethnicity do not exist. Austrian, Bulgarian and Serbian consulates in the area produced their own ethnographic estimations about the sanjak. In general, three main groups lived in the region: Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Albanians and Muslim Slavs (noted in contemporary sources as Bosnian or Herzegovinian Muslims). Small communities of Romani, Turks and Jews lived mainly in towns. The Bulgarian foreign ministry compiled a report in 1901-02. The five kazas (districs) of the sanjak of the Novi Pazar at that time were: Akova, Sjenica, Kolain, Novi Pazar and Novi Varo. According to the Bulgarian report, in the kaza of Akova there were 47 Albanian villages which had 1,266 households. Serbs lived in 11 villages which had 216 households.[53] The town of Akova (Bijelo Polje) had 100 Albanian and Serb households. There were also mixed villages - inhabited by both Serbs and Albanians - which had 115 households with 575 inhabitants. The kaza of Sjenica was inhabited mainly by Orthodox Serbs (69 villages with 624 households) and Bosnian Muslims (46 villages with 655 households). Seventeen villages had a population of both Orthodox Serbs and Bosnian Muslims. Albanians (505 households) lived exclusively in the town of Sjenica. The kaza of Novi Pazar had 1,749 households in 244 Serb villages and 896 households in 81 Albanian villages. Nine villages inhabited by both Serbs and Albanians had 173 households. The town of Novi Pazar had a total of 1,749 Serb and Albanian households with 8,745 inhabitants.[54] The kaza of Kolain had 27 Albanian villages with 732 households and 5 Serb villages with 75 households. The administrative centre of the kaza, ahovići, had 25 Albanian households. The kaza of Novi Varo, according the Bulgarian report, had 19 Serbian villages with 298 households and "one Bosnian village with 200 houses".[55] Novi Varo had 725 Serb and some Albanian households.[56]
The last official registration of the population of the sanjak of Novi Pazar before the Balkan Wars was conducted in 1910. The 1910 Ottoman census recorded 52,833 Muslims and 27,814 Orthodox Serbs. About 65% of the population were Muslims and 35% Serbian Orthodox. The majority of the Muslim population were Albanians. [57]
Sandak is a very ethnically diverse region. Most Bosniaks declared themselves ethnic Muslims in 1991 census. By the 2002-2003 census, however, most of them declared themselves Bosniaks. There is still a significant minority that identify as Muslims (by ethnicity). There are still some Albanian villages (Borotica, Doliće and Ugao) in the Peter region.[58] There were a larger presence of Albanians in Sandak in the past, however due to various factors such as migration, assimilation, along with mixing, many identify as Bosniaks instead.[18][59][60]
The Slavic dialect of Gusinje and Plav (sometimes considered part of Sandak) shows very high structural influence from Albanian. Its uniqueness in terms of language contact between Albanian and Slavic is explained by the fact that most Slavic-speakers in today's Plav and Gusinje are of Albanian origin.[61]