My DNA results

[Dr_Maul]

I think what he lists would fit better in the "Ancestry" box, not "Meta-Ethnicity".

Yeah you're right, I put it that way before my test as to give people an idea of possible admixture beforehand lol

[waam]

There are a few different Ethnolinguistic groups, linguistically wise there are a lot of 'seperate' groups but a lot of them are genetically similar. The ones in my bio are just based off of where my Great-Grandparents were born, and they can possibly indicate my ethnics based on geography but its not exact really. I am considered Persian because I am 7/8 Persian ethnically and it is my mother tongue.Generally the races are:

Kurds: The most "popular", they are around 8% of the population. Their language is Iranic and fairly similar but it is not completely mutually intelligible (I can probably understand 30%). Genetically wise they are similar to Persians but not the same
Lurs: They are mostly tribal and rural so there are not many outside of Iran. Their language is very similar to Persian (Almost mutually intelligible but not quite, similar to Mazanderani) but they are genetically closer to Kurds. They are 5% roughly
Azeris: They are a Turkic speaking ethnic group making up between 15-20% of the population. The language is basically Turkish so not intelligible. Ethnically they are a mix of Turkic, Kavkaz and Iranic (Kurdish/Persian) but predominantly Turkic.
Persians: 60-65% and the majority ethnic group, no explanation really needed. The majority of the diaspora overseas also comes from Persian provinces (but a lot of Azeri as well, and Kurds in Europe)
Rest are 1-2% minority groups like Arabs, Qashqais (Turkic speaking but genetically Kurdish), Turkmens (Turkmenistan border areas) Balochis (High south asian DNA folks living near the Pak border)

Thanks for the info. My maternal family are actually Iranian speaking. They speak a Jewish variety of Persian. Wonder how much it would be intelligible for you.

[Leto]

Thanks for the info. My maternal family are actually Iranian speaking. They speak a Jewish variety of Persian. Wonder how much it would be intelligible for you.

Persian dialects like Mountain, Bukhori and Iranian Jewish are still alive in Israel?

[Raizen]

Your results are very harmonious i'm impressed

[Dr_Maul]

Thanks for the info. My maternal family are actually Iranian speaking. They speak a Jewish variety of Persian. Wonder how much it would be intelligible for you.

Is this similar to what you mean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wT5pAmXbI)? If so, I can probably understand like 5% of it unfortunately, it just sounds like Hebrew to me. Maybe they speak Persian but with Hebrew words for some Jewish things that may not have a word in Persian, idk

[waam]

Persian dialects like Mountain, Bukhori and Iranian Jewish are still alive in Israel?

Among elders yeah of course. The elders in my maternal family speak it along with Russian.

Is this similar to what you mean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wT5pAmXbI)? If so, I can probably understand like 5% of it unfortunately, it just sounds like Hebrew to me. Maybe they speak Persian but with Hebrew words for some Jewish things that may not have a word in Persian, idk

Here's a clip of someone actually speaking it. It's technically called Juhuri (the language of the Jews who inhabited the Caucasus Mountains) but my Grandma calls it Farsi. The song you linked was actually Hebrew.

[Dr_Maul]

Among elders yeah of course. The elders in my maternal family speak it along with Russian.



Here's a clip of someone actually speaking it. It's technically called Juhuri (the language of the Jews who inhabited the Caucasus Mountains) but my Grandma calls it Farsi. The song you linked was actually Hebrew.

Hmm yeah quite a few words and phrases are the same but I don't recognize the things that put them together lol, but I got maybe 30-40%. Some parts of it I could not understand at all like he is talking fully Hebrew or Russian but some parts it is like he is talking full Farsi, it is interesting

[Raizen]

I've learnt how to appreciate DNA results lately and i can see the beauty in yours, one that i've not seen for a while. The perfect combination of Levantine and West Asian elements don't fight with each other, instead they are perfectly balanced, and the pinch of steppe and Central Asian elements elegantly forms the link between the two major elements, like how a hydrogen connects two oxygen atoms to form the water that nourishes. Thank you for posting this eye opening thread, i appreciate man

[waam]

Hmm yeah quite a few words and phrases are the same but I don't recognize the things that put them together lol, but I got maybe 30-40%. Some parts of it I could not understand at all like he is talking fully Hebrew or Russian but some parts it is like he is talking full Farsi, it is interesting

Cool to know. It would make sense Russian words integrated into the language, Russian has been the dominant language in that area for the last 200 years or so.

[Dr_Maul]

I've learnt how to appreciate DNA results lately and i can see the beauty in yours, one that i've not seen for a while. The perfect combination of Levantine and West Asian elements don't fight with each other, instead they are perfectly balanced, and the pinch of steppe and Central Asian elements elegantly forms the link between the two major elements, like how a hydrogen connects two oxygen atoms to form the water that nourishes. Thank you for posting this eye opening thread, i appreciate man

With that mindset, I wonder how you would react to my dad's 100% Iranian result lol...