Which 3 ethnolinguistic groups do you wish were still around?

[Dr_Maul]

That's complete nonsense, dude. Khwarezmians were Iranic. Please stop claiming everything as Turkic. This is the first time I've heard them being called Turks. What's next, Sogdians were a Turkic dynasty?

I think he is referring to the Khwarezm state from 1200 until Mongols, not the actual race. Although I don't think the race itself was very distinct from its neighbors to actually call it an ethnolinguistic group

[Mingle]

Goths definetly
Scythians
Hittities

are Khwarezmians an ethnolinguistic group?

Yes, Al Biruni was Khwarezmian.

[Mingle]

I think he is referring to the Khwarezm state from 1200 until Mongols, not the actual race. Although I don't think the race itself was very distinct from its neighbors to actually call it an ethnolinguistic group

They had their own distinct language. Virtually all Iranic ethnic groups are defined by the language they speak. If Khwarezmians can't be considered an ethnicity; then neither can Kurds, Parthians, or Talyshes.

[Mingle]

I don't find any of them useful

I guess others will disagree.

I am mostly interested in those groups cause they had a rich history. The usefulness of their existence is we would know more historical and linguistic details about them, like the example with Liburnians that Feiichy mentioned. But I don't think most people would care about them, so it's fine if you don't either. Everyone has their own opinion.

[Mingle]

Illyrians. I would like to know more about them.
Maybe also Prussians and old Magyars.

Old Hungarians evolved into modern ones. I don't think they can be counted as extinct.

[Dr_Maul]

They had their own distinct language. Virtually all Iranic ethnic groups are defined by the language they speak. If Khwarezmians can't be considered an ethnicity, then neither can Kurds, Parthians, or Talyshes.

Well its not like we know a significant amount about it to distinguish it as much. For all we know it could have been a dialect of East Iranian similar to the other ones and not distinct enough. Considering it got phased out by Persian even before the Mongol invasion it was probably a midpoint between Sogdian and Pahlavi

[Ford]

Goths
Etruscans (Tyrsenians?)
Sumerians

[Mingle]

Well its not like we know a significant amount about it to distinguish it as much. For all we know it could have been a dialect of East Iranian similar to the other ones and not distinct enough. Considering it got phased out by Persian even before the Mongol invasion it was probably a midpoint between Sogdian and Pahlavi

Based on the data we know, they had their own East Iranic language and weren't included among Sogdians. Anyways, we could make the same argument for many old ethnic groups, especially non-Persian Iranic ones. The de facto opinion is that they were their own ethnicity, so it's not worth calling them out for being known as their own ethnic group. Otherwise, you should do that for all other non-Persian Iranics.

[Mikula]

Quenya
Sindar
Khazad

[Token]

Goths, Gauls and Tocharians.