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Baskhirs and Volga Tatars are autosomally quite similar to Volga Finnic groups (Mordvins/Eryza, Mari).Okay, after I watched the presentations focused on the latest archeogenetic research and results about Conquest Era Magyars these are the very brand new conclusions, which according to the scientists are still in preliminary phase, since the final results will be published in the coming months, but still they are close to being very precise:
Thus far both mtDNA and Y-DNA haplogroups have proven that Conquest Era Magyars were the closest from Ancient populations to to Eurasian Scythians, while from modern populations to Volga Tatars and Bashkirs. Well, we all know these two haplogroups only constitute ca. 1% of the entire genome of an individual, while the admixture results are clearly the ones which paint the full picture of somebody's origins. Well, according to preliminary results it seems that the admixture of Conquest Era Magyars also solidify previous results, that indeed, Eurasian Scythians and Western Huns were the closest people to them, while from modern populations still the same Bashkirs, Volga Tatars, Turkmen. They also shown that there was a difference between the elite of the Magyars who had this Eurasian Scythian component, while the regular population living in Hungary after the Conquest happened, had a more European type of characteristic, but still with ca. 10-15% Eurasian and Asian background. If these results are indeed true, then it becomes even more of a mystery how did these Magyars end up speaking Hungarian, while genetically they don't seem to be very close to Finno-Ugric populations. Were Conquest Era Magyars truly the population that brought with them the Hungarian language and spread it around the local people, or did they rather find this language already here, while they only conquered and organized them into a new state, but ended up adopting their Hungarian language?
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