Armenians or Kalmyks. Who do you like the most?

[Laag]

You can tell they evolved in very cold climate.

They don't live in cold climates. Kalmykia is on the same latitude as Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Northern Italy.


Kalmyks immigrated there in the 16-18th centuries from the territory of Dzungaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungaria

Now it is the Northwest of China. The same latitude as Kalmykia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Northern Italy.

[Thracian]

Kalmyks of course.

[Ymyyakhtakh]

Kalmyks immigrated there in the 16-18th centuries from the territory of Dzungaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungaria

Now it is the Northwest of China. The same latitude as Kalmykia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Northern Italy.

Dzungaria (i.e. Northern Xinjiang) is possibly also the location of the Pre-Proto-Uralic or Proto-Uralic urheimat, if PPU/PU spread to Europe because of the Seima-Turbino phenomenon:

ST weapons contain tin bronze ore originating from the Altai Mountains region (central Mongolia and southern Siberia), with further ST discoveries pointing more specifically to the southeastern portions of the Altai and Xinjiang, China.[1] These sites have been identified with the origin of the mysterious ST culture.[5]

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The same authors conjectured that the same migrations spread the Uralic languages across Europe and Asia.[3]

Notable is the similarity between the range of Haplogroup N3a3’6, especially in the western part of Eurasia and the distribution of the Seima-Turbino trans-cultural phenomenon during the interval of 4.2–3.7 kya.[13] Carriers of N3a1-B211, the early branch of N3a, could have migrated to the eastern fringes of Europe by the same Seima-Turbino groups. [...]

Another subclade of Y-DNA Haplogroup N, which reaches some of its highest frequencies among the Finnic peoples, is N1b (F2930), the time and geographical range of which coincides with the time and geographic range of the migrations. Estimated to be 4000 years old, N1b spread north and westwards from its original locus in Southern Siberia, exactly as Seima-Turbino migration did.

Southwestern Finland was connected to the Nordic Bronze Age culture, but in inland Finland, the Bronze Age was initiated by the Seima-Turbino network, which in turn was possibly descended from the Chinese Qijia culture.

[user_]

Kalmyks, our EuroMongol brothers and sisters.

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I prefer Armenians.

They don't live in cold climates. Kalmykia is on the same latitude as Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Northern Italy.


Kalmyks immigrated there in the 16-18th centuries from the territory of Dzungaria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungaria

Now it is the Northwest of China. The same latitude as Kalmykia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Northern Italy.

You can't judge about climate only by latitude.
Kalmykia is semi-desert place with cold, dry winters and extremely hot summers (hottest place in Russia is Utta in Kalmykia +45°C). Armenia is more mild and closer by climate to the countries that you mentioned.

[Hajimurad]

Neither.

[Laag]

I prefer Armenians.







You can't judge about climate only by latitude.
Kalmykia is semi-desert place with cold, dry winters and extremely hot summers (hottest place in Russia is Utta in Kalmykia +45°C). Armenia is more mild and closer by climate to the countries that you mentioned.

You're right. Winter in Europe is not so cold and the average temperature is higher. The closer to the Gulf Stream the warmer.

I compared the average annual temperature for different cities that are at about the same latitude.

The numbers from Wikipedia.

Daily mean °C
Milan (Italy) latitude 45,5: 13,0
Zagreb (Croatia) latitude 45,8: 10,7
Timișoara (Romania) latitude 45,7: 10,6
Elista (Kalmykia) latitude 46,3: 9,3
Karamay (Northwest China) latitude 45,5: 8,3

But at the same time Salekhard the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Daily mean: -5,7

[Mingle]

I'm surprised because you are half azeri who are enemies of armenians

His Azeri side is from Iran and they're not enemies with Armenians. Most Iranians that visit Armenia are Azeris. Technically speaking, Azeris from Shirvan (Republic of Azerbaijan) and Iranian Azerbaijan aren't the same ethnicity (like how Anatolians Turks and Azeris are different ethnicities), and Shirvanis never identified as Azeri until the 20th century, but that's a different discussion.

[Bakha]

I'm going with Armenians. Love is the way!

Shame on you

[Mingle]

There is much less trouble from Kalmyks than from Armenians. In Russia Armenians are associated with rather negative activities.

P.S. Armenian sounds like Georgian language. Kalmyk sounds like intermediate between Mongolian and Turkic.

Kalmyks are ethnic Oirats and thus a Mongolic subgroup. The name Kalmyk is a Turkic/Kazakh exonym. Based on the comments of the video about their language, Khalkha Mongols could fully understand their language, so it's basically Mongolian with maybe minor Turkic and possibly Russian influence rather than being intermediate.

[Laag]

The Nenets living in a cold climate look quite different from the Kalmyks. They are fair skinned and light-haired.

Coon

Although the mongoloid character of the Samoyed may easily be seen in their flattish, round faces, everted lips, and up-tilted, low-bridged nose, and in their scarcity of beard, one cannot call them purely or completely mongoloid. Photographs of Samoyeds show a considerable number with partially European features. Sommer's data on hair and eye color, again, shows some thirty per cent with mixed or light eyes, and the same number with hair ranging from medium brown to blond. As with the Lapps, the women are notably darker in hair and eye color than the men.

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