Are Modern Afghans and Iranians Related? Genetics of the Persian People
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- Are modern Afghan and Iranian people related? Today we're gonna look at the genetics of the Persian people and other Iranian-speaking ethnic groups, and look at their relation to each other and other groups.
As 25% of my ancestry comes from this region of the Middle East, I have a great deal of interest in the countries of Iran, Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan. Although I still have a lot to learn on the region, I wanted to share my thoughts with you, and I hope you learned something new!
Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Iran, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East down in the comments below. Thanks for watching!
Also, I realize GeographyNow just released a video on Kurds and Iran, but I was already working on this video for about a week now, and finally found a time to release, so the two are unrelated.
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My parents are from Afghanistan and my teacher was so shocked when I told her people don’t speak Arabic there. Our official and widely spoken languages are Pashto and Dari.
Our official language is farsi but we have people who speaks uzbeki, pashto, turkmeni and ..
@@cyrusreynz cmon bro it’s both farsi and Pashto. Pashto has the most native speakers while farsi is understood mostly by everyone.
@@mujahid-9630 Your wrong. Pashtuns are not more than 8million in afghanistan. If they were now we had to speak pashto instead of farsi.
@@cyrusreynz lol if Pashtuns were 8 million they wouldn’t dominate the country for the past centuries. Pashto is spoken by more than half the provinces and if you actually go to Afghanistan you’d realise how many people speak it. Except for a few northern provinces, all central, eastern and wester and south speak Pashto. Even Kabul is now back to 40-50% Pashtuns. The opposition is Pashtun the government is in Pashtun hands everything is in Pashtuns hands because we make the majority. At least 50-55 %
@@mujahid-9630 northern afghanistan is tajik majority some districts are also uzbeki
While central afghanistan is hazara majority
In eastern afghanistan there are also nuristani provence
Pashtun form only majority on southern districts but there are also baloch majority provence nimroz and southern kandahar and parts of helmand
Remember tajik's , hazara's , half of pashtun's of afghanistan speak's persian not pashto
In afghanistan there are atleast 70% persian speakers
Can we say that Afghan people have the most awesome eyes?
@Mancini Smith pushtoon
Kpk will be returned to Afghanistan, You say?
Dream on buddy. Pakistan will never allow it. Besides. Pakistani Pashtoons are very loyal to Pakistan.
@@somedude6683 Pakistani pashtoons are being killed day by day by the pakistani government, fuck that shit.
@chachi mogo He only stated that most lightcoloured are found in the pushtoon tribes, which is 100% true! stop bringing up the ethnic card, u r probably another hazara that takes everything offensive, just fk off with that shit! he is comming with facts, which u can't tolerate
@chachi mogo i am a hazara. I have light brown eyes with green sprinkles.
@chachi mogo I mean your right
I'm Black. I research world history and ethnicities. Your video was informative and I learned a lot about the Persian, Iranian, and Tajik peoples. Also about Afghanistan and and the different ethnicities. I enjoyed the video very much Thank you
Black or african?
Black people like asians live in big complex ethic complex i amysaying because i am asian and i khow africanos too.
You are welcome in Iran
I am greek and Iran is stupid
@@johnathons1789 lol are u pissed about the ancient wars? Fuck you
*Proud to be an Afghan, proud to be Persian* 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯
Aryan baby
Paid disliker off course, long live Aryans
Long live Iranic peoples
@Xuân Hoa so what humans no matter of what race are meant to survive by any means, especially being nomadic.
An ethnic Azeri here, just wanna note that from what I've gathered in actuality it seems we are genetically more close to ethnic Persians than Anatolian Turks, it's just we've gone through language shift due to Seljuk migrations .
Though I do stand open to be corrected.
Cheers 😊
No, we are more close to Caucasion nations rather to Persian nor Turks. Anatolian turks in our nation exists it is:
Kisil baş (still exist in Afganistan), Şahseven and azeris from Marneuli (also known as Borçalı, name comes from tribe's name). But all turkic were assemilated. Although Persia tried to assemilate Atropatene and Albania, but it just went no where and now we have Tat group (persians in caucasus).
Genetically the azeris from azerbaijan and Anatolian turks are the closest to eachother but azeris from iran are just iranic
@@ertorolrahmadow95 Well no. Azeris have nothing to do with Anotolian turks nor Iranian. The caucasion DNA is dominant. Some test showed that south Azeris have more same with Georgians and Lezgins than with iranians.
@@emilturangi7145 Google Azerbaijani Gedmatch theapricity Anatolian Turks and Azerbaijanis are nearly the same by Dna also Caucasian Influence in Anatolia is big too
@@ertorolrahmadow95 The only research that points it is made in Turkey, while others 3-4 made in other countrues points Caucasian DNA.
I'm Afghan but I took a DNA ethnicity test thing and it said that I was 39% South Asian, 45% Iranian and 14% Russian. So there you go.
How is South Asian even classified as a genetic entity? 😕 It's just a geo-political region. Afghanistan is in Central-South Asia.
south asian means pakistani, maybe even pashtu etc.
How much does it cost to do the test?
LetsLearnFarsi We all know where the Russian came from and you cannot dent it.
Arslan Yousafzai It’s not due to the Soviet invasion. Because that was so recent.
It is because ancient afghans originated from Central Europe.
Very interesting! I truly do not believe that people understand how diverse The Middle East and Asia is. I love how you break it down so people can see how very complicated it can really be. Why we sit back and say "But they are all Middle Eastern so why are they fighting each other?" Culture and ethnicity really makes a difference. Loved the vid.
They are NOT really fighting each other!!if you deeply examine the area you will find that WE are the ones making them fight each other; and by WE I mean the industry of weapons ,planes ships hi-tech …etc and then add to that the many many varieties of religious sects most of which we do not know because we only know about the largest mainstream ones such as Sunni and Shiite branches so it is easy for us in western industrialized hi-tech nations to light off those people in forever wars against each other.. 🗽👮♂️
Religion is the issue and nomadic
@@alexcholagh8330religion isn't an issue, Islam unites people. Islam is not a violent religion, judging Islam a religion that 1400 years old on the last two decades when foreigners invaded their land, pillaged, raped, and literally destroyed their nations while the West funded extremists to regime change governments and destroy nations.
Middle Eastern is the British word for Arab lands ruled by them after the betrayal of Arabs.
Keep fightin in the comment section over skin color.
Divide and conquered
@Iwwy Iw I can't imagine being such a tribalist that I lump myself in with a whole group and am happy to just be another one of a giant "us". You're a human being, not just another Afghan, even if that is also part of who you are.
There's nothing to be proud of in getting along with other Afghans as an Afghan, so I'm not sure why you're bragging about it; I know people can be stupid about nationalism, but you're just contributing to it, and you should get along with anyone no matter where they're from if they're a reasonable person. That would be what you brag about, not, "hey, I'm just another tribalist".
@Iwwy Iw Not white, not harassing Afghans. I love all people. I'm pointing out tribalism. I don't care if you're Ugandan, Uzbek, or Fijian, your tribalism is regressive.
I'm on this video because I used to watch Masaman's videos? Because they're interesting? What the fuck? Are only Afghans entitled to watch this video? Are only Nilotes allowed to watch his videos on Dinka, are only Hispanics allowed to watch his videos on Latinos? Weirdo.
im a lur a we speak ancient persian.also kurds have many ancient words in their language.a persian can completely understand our speaks.and a lur can understand 50-60 % of kurdish words.if i listen carefully and think about the root of kurdish words i can understand 90 %of kurdish.
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how do you know that you speak ancient language?
Actually Lari Language is More Ancient And Related To Kurdish Than Lur
Uh ur lur? wanna join a Khurasan discord? we want many different iranics in it
@@eltoro9907 Yes. I am from Larestan and can confirm that. Nice to see some recognition btw. thanks
Abdullah Karimi Sure
Love this the concept of your channel. I've been wanting to make videos about stuff like this for a long time, but I'm glad someone else has done it already. Keep it up!
I love it when you upload. You teach more than my teachers too. You make very good quality videos. :)
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Long live Persians
Iran just persian
Ahmad yaser Sarwari I’m guessing you’re talking about Tajiks, bz we Pashtuns don’t like being called Persians or Iranians
Jack Killer Persia is not only Iran it’s also Afghanistan idiot
Shaboner true but since history they arnt rlly anymore iran is the official "persian" country just bc they got out and just started a whole other thing
irans the largest "persian" country plz educate urself they have different cultures
10/10 Comments. Never change, my friends. :'D
As a Pashtun, I don't consider the 'pathans' of india as Pashtuns. They're just Indians who claim Afghan origin. Many people in South Asia claim to have Turk/Arab/Afghan/Persian backgrounds. I ain't going to say they're lying but in the end of the day they're still seen as Pakistanis/Indians
gkkhan Fuck u
Why is everyone getting pissed at me? I have stayed respectful and didn't say anything racist.
I ain't a rapist nor a pedophile. Afghanistan ain't the only country were there are pedos. Actually even Mullah Omar, the founder of the terrorist Taliban, hates rapist pedos. He got one hung off a tank man gun. Pedophilia is illegal in Afghanistan.
IA King exactly. All Pashtuns are 100% Afghan
But the Khans of Bollywood are indeed of Pashtun origin.
no they r pashtuns, u only say this because u hate indians and u see them as inferior. in reality i have listened to afghan pashtun music and its the same as indian music.
beautiful video 👍🏻
It depends on tribe, you could be European or Asian. There are so many different types of people, it's quite incredible.
Geography now comes out with Iran and now I get to learn more about their people from you, good timing lol
I also have one grandparent from Rasht- weird coincidence! Great video, very fascinated by the topic too :)
great video, very interesting. keep making videos dude. I want you to do every civilization in the world. great job. thanks
Thank you. 2021, we want to know more about Afghan and this is very useful.
I learn a lot from it. You're the man bro!
Rang Klos
He is giving wrong information since he is a Turk and belong to pan Turk movement trying to divide people for greater Ottoman Empire.
my friend at least he is generating contents. their accuracy can be left for the audience to judge. your concern is not totally bad btw.
Great video! Just when i've been obsessed with Iran lately!
Steven Pham aww you're beautiful. Greetings from an Iranian girl :)
TabbyAngel2 why aren't you stoned yet? Jk lol.
Steven Pham Don't take this video as a source. It has a lot of mistakes and wrong information.
***** totally agreed. It's very inaccurate.
***** Zoroastrian mixed with Christian beliefs. I adhere to both philosophies in my life. What about you?
Keep releasing videos my man.
I'm an Afghan, My father is a Pashtun and my mother is a Tajik Afghan. I did a DNA test and my results are
West Asian - 33.9% =Turkey/Iran
South Asian - 28.1% = India
Central Asian - 22.5% = Afghanistan/Tajikistan
Scandinavian -12.5% = Norway/Sweden
Native American -1.5% = America
Middle Eastern - 1.5 % = Arab
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What website did you take the DNA test with?
Central Asian is more than just Tajik/Afghan. You didn't include Turkmen, Uzbek and Kyrghyz.
South Asian does not mean India, the DNA tests are very unreliable. Most of these DNA tests classify Afghanistan as a South Asian country which is completely wrong. Also they refer to Part of North Pakistan like the Pashtun and baloch regions as South Asian. So when your DNA shows South Asian it could be anything from Pashtun to Persian speaking people to Baloch and etc. The DNA tests are so stupid, They think South Asia is monolithic. How can Tamil from South India and a Pashtun from Afghanistan and Pakistan the same people
That means that Pashtuns are Indians not Iranians
@@user-tq8xh5sr1k are you ok? you have no information how stupid these DNA tests are
I strongly disagree that the "Middle Eastern" phenotype is even remotely monolithic. It's EXTREMELY diverse with extremely distinct regional differences as well as extreme differences in coloration/complexion. I would say the diversity is about as great as that of Europe, if not more.
If you can't tell the difference between Persians, Syrians, Yemenis, Gulf Arabs, Moroccans, and Egyptians, then you probably just don't know enough to have a good idea of what they each look like. A Lebanese person will look as much like an Omani as an Irish person will look like a Greek. A Tunisian will look like a Persian as much as as a Spaniard will look like a Ukrainian.
No, they look "Middle Eastern" because populations living along the Mediterranean are more closely-related in many respects than they are to their distant land neighbors in Europe, Africa, or West Asia.
Also Jews, Persians, Arabians, Berbers, Levantine Arabs, Egyptians, etc are all very distinct in appearance, both in skin tone and facial features.
I'm confused, how does that relate to my comment? Also "white" vs. "black" according to the examples you've given aren't really relevant. Genetically and, for the most part, physically, most "Middle Eastern" peoples are much closer to "white" Europe than to "black" sub-Saharan Africa, though obviously southern regions of North African countries and southern Arabia overlap a bit. I'm going to take a wild guess that the "black" Persian you've seen (unless an exception or a recent migrant) better resembles an Indian than an African. Meanwhile, entire swaths of Iran's geography are populated by people who are almost indistinguishable from many Europeans in coloration, and could be easily confused for them based on facial features, at least as much as any Persian or Iranian could be mistaken for a Levantine Arab or Moroccan.
Simeon BK We are not related to Europeans. Scientists have also done a DNA genetics for us. They've found that we were never related to the ''Aryan'' people. You will never be white. But hey, keep dreaming!
Sorry, Jessica, but that's 100% false. You share an enormous amount a common ancestry with Europeans, specifically those from Southern and Central Europe. "Europe" is basically a political term for Northwest Asia. It's a continuum, and genetically, they form a continuum of West Asia (aka the "Middle East"). The "Aryan race" is a nonsensical invention of 20th century Europeans. Being "white" is also a subjective and transient term with little basis in genetics. Mediterranean Europeans are more closely related to Mediterranean West Asians than they are to Scandinavians.
Geras, so I was right that the "black" Iranian was not at all related to Africa. My point is that the "Middle East" is an ambiguous term. An Iranian (some people might not even consider Iran in the "Middle East") has totally different physical features (regardless of coloration) from a Yemeni or a Moroccan (if someone considers that the "Middle East"). Of course there is phenotype overlap and genetic overlap, but it's a continuum that stretches into Europe. There's no hard line between Europe and West Asia.
I am a pashtun from kandahar (south afghanistan) and all my family members are fair skinned and a lot of us have blue or green eyes.
I also have dark hair, blue eyes and fair skin.
but I would have loved to have a little darker skin as a contrast to my eye color :D
everyone thinks I am greek.
Bibi Nawaky its ok
Bibi Khala White isn’t a good or bad thing don’t fall for this inferiority bullshit dark middle or
White doesn’t matter all the same
I am from swat pakistan and my faimly has brow hair and grey eyes
No one knows because the BURQAS
@@MESSI-fx1ob exactly and most ”greeks” are dark look like Arabs in any case
Great point made! 2:59 Very important video thank you 👍
great job very informative
You look so much like Paul from GeographyNow. Even the hand gesture at the end. You're like him except you're a history buff. Btw I love your content a lot
Most Americans think Afghans and Iranians are dark skinned stereotypical people, but the Pashtuns, Tajiks, and Persians are clearly Caucasian people, this area has lots of interesting ethnic groups it's a shame people today only know this area for terrorism and war :(
That's because we are dark skinned, bruh stfu we are not white
I'm not dark skinned lol
Light skin doesn't make you white, but hey keep dreaming
caucasian doesn't mean white
caucasian is everything from europe to the middle east
That was awesome good video
I really really love your channel. I don't feel like I know anyone that gets me like this in real life
I really appreciate your work.
Do you study anthropology perhaps?
Great video man I really enjoy your channel.
It is a great video thank you man
Thank you so much for this very important information. I was glad to learn about all the ethnic groups in this specific region. It is my favorite subject. Thanks again.
I probably put 2 1/2 hours into researching Ethinic groups of Afghanistan. Specifically the red-black hair with green or blue eyes. It was needless to say a work of love and worth the effort. I have a neighbor who is Pashtun/Kabul. She's a lovely woman to know. A picture of her parents with their traditional dress is on her table. She and the rest of her siblings left before total war. I was working in the library when the article of the Girl with the green Eyes crossed my path. I haven't brought the subject up with my neighbor. Today I found your website and subscribed. I'm not finished yet!!! Truly fascinating subject.thank you!!!!
I hate Afghans a lot.
Afghani culture th-cam.com/video/mBC9Bysz6nA/w-d-xo.html
@@pls.85 no one asked go away i bet u your Pakistani
Your videos are great, just wanted you to know
Enlightening video
(4:16) "Although they're sometimes considered Iranian peoples" ??
Azeri people play a huge part in Iranian history, having lived in Iranzamin for thousands of years. They also very proudly defended Iran in wars and have contributed with so much, from art, music, culture etc.
So yeah, @Masaman has some more reading up to do for sure.
ShervMidi true but u can also say they arnt persian and they are a small part of iran (compared to the amount of persians) They are a part of iran but it sad when people say they're persian
@@arshida1898 I never stated that Azeris are Persian. Azeris, Persians, Armenians, Gilakis, Kurds, Turkmen, Tajik & etc people in Iran are all what makes Iran the country it is. Persians themselves are only one group of Iranians, a group that managed to achieve many great things in our human history. Also if you take notice, many Persians look very different from each other, thats because they're literally mixed with the other groups that I mentioned above since living together for thousands of years.
@@arshida1898 Btw, I'm part Azeri myself.
not just mongols
it was a wave of migrations of turkic peoples before mongols, it wasnt just mongols that cleared out indo-europeans in central asia.
Afghanis are mixed with Mongols, most Afghans have Mongolian faces.
@@pls.85 Only Hazaras has East-asic genetic.
@@salehkhan6788 Most Afghans have Mongolian faces.
@@pls.85 No Only about 20% of Afghanistans popolation have Mongolic ancentry
@@salehkhan6788 30% of Afghanistan are Mongols, 20% of Afghanistan are Turks. And most Afghans have Mongolian faces.
Great video! You've earned yourself a new subscriber :)
Cool video
The people of Iran have always called their country Iran . Persia is a European word , and comes from the Iranian region of Fars , from which we get the true name of the Persian language, Farsi .
The term iran first came to use during the reign of the Sassanids and even then it was not widely used. The original Aryana or homeland of the Aryan people is the territory of modern day Afghanistan as mentioned in ancient sanskrit sources and also shown on Ancient greek maps from the time of Alexander the Great.
@ khrosoni. You are wrong. The word Iran was used since Achaemenid empire 550 BC. Ariana was the local name of Western region of khorasan with Haraiva (Harat) as one of the main cities.
Thanks for this, I enjoyed listening. One small point, ethnic Azeris do speak Turkish and have adopted some Turkish culture, but ethnically they are almost identical to other Iranians. Remember Azerbaijan is just a region of Iran, which the Russians stole the top third of.
Remember you just a degenerate from hellhole nation of Iran that comited genecide to Azeris in 1947. So wait till history will do the same to you. We are not and never were close to SheIranians, rather more caucasian people. But your Mullah wouldn't tell ya about it.
@@emilturangi7145 Persians are Caucasian ya dunce
@@paulmccray4055 the only dunce here is you, kid.
@@emilturangi7145 🧐😲🤥🤥
Exactly what I said. Different languages in Iran doesn’t mean different genetics and the country called Azerbaijan stole its name from our Azerbaijan since their name before being stolen from Iran used to be Aran.
Excellent!
amazing ! thanks
As a Persian, I've met many Iranian people. I find the Azeris to be the most interesting. May of them even call themselves Persian in my experience, which I found really interesting.
Doni Habib Nurmagamedov Khrosoni YOURE NOT PERSIAN LMAO and you speak dari. It's a different accent and the words are not all the same you uneducated fuck
+Doni Habib Nurmagamedov Khrosoni You're not Persian if you are muslim. Only Zoroastrians are the real Persians, the rest are traitors.
Malousak medes are not a racial group and werent even one group of ethnicity, but rather more like a nationality, a collection of Iranic peoples, which actually included a lot of Persians.
@@dehechenka Azerbaiejanis are not same with turks in turkey
@Son of Mountain no genetically azeris are different than turks in turkey, by the way Kurdish and Persian are the closest languages in the region, and yes both got some arabic words unfortunately, its the school system jib to eliminate nasty arabic
Just disable your comment sections please.. some of the comment make me lose faith in humanity
Very interesting !
I like your videos keep up the good work
Nice Im Hazara i Love may peopple so match hazaristan
You are hazara are you Afghanistan hazara???
So you are from mangolia
Fack you hazaristan hazara mongolia chingas khan breed this people mairant afghanistan
I liked to mention this also :). Im an a Afshar from south East of Iran ( which make me a turkic origin person ). These days mostly Afshars speak Persian or adopted native languages ( so far i have seen Kurdish , Lurish and Mazani speaking Afshars too ) and even some of my relatives would even get offended by being call as Turk these things happened by policies of former Pahlavi dynasty. So far Afshars of Kerman didnt mix with natives at least until late 1790s or 1800s when their khantes was collppased by Qajars they started to mix with Persians. Its also interesting that i dont show turkic features a lot ( since my motherside is half persian ) but for example grandfather of my father totaly look turkish centeral Asian. Still some Turkic groups such as Seljuks also exist in Kerman which they all also have Asian Look like mostly if they didnt mix but all speaking Persian only. Also for making it more Accurate , Tajik and Tat were a General name whicb used by Turkish speaking people to call the Natives. In Azerbaijan they use Tat while in Kerman and even some villages still Persians are call as Tajik by the Turks. And the last thing is in Azerbaijan both Turks ane Tats ( natives) mixed natives adopted their language , but by our case its like we adopted language of the natives Persian but since we modernized later in 1930s and still had our tribal life we even know name of our Turkish clan and tribe which so far few settled people of Azerbaijan know this still or remember it
Masaman,you should make a video about Egyptians.That would be really cool.
Good video- Lot of info - Well made --- You need to do a video on the people of Gilgit/Baltistan who live in the Northern most regions of Pakistan cause we know very little about them. Am from India though. Also the Kalash people of North Western Pakistan
Finally! As people can see Afghans, both the Persian (Tajiks) and Pashtuns of afghanistan who make up 80% of the population together are Iranic and the rest (Uzbek/hazara) are Turkic by origin! Our culture is a fusion of iranic and Turkic and people need to stop associating us with south Asians or desi people whom we don’t share culture/language or ethnicity with! We are western Asian (Middle Eastern) and central asians!
Preach!!! But how about the pushtun who now live in modern day Pakistan? They consider themselves south Asian Pakistanis, but everything about them originated from Afghanistan?
Pashtuns also had greek admixture and were once the indo european race,which makes sense how pashtun people has these bright or pale green eyes.
@Iwwy Iw I am Afghan pashtun and have green eyes. I dont understand how Afghans have such little greek/macedonian dna. Alexander the Great himself married an Afghan wife. Also the Greco-Bactrians ruled Afghanistan for 300 years... I think they tend to study the wrong ethnic groups.I believe people in Kapisa, Panshir, Badakhshan probably have significant greek dna. But they always test pakistani pashtuns lol
@Iwwy Iw Yo dude, I know Afghans are ancient Indo-Europeans (Aryans). I also know Nuristanis don't descend from Greeks. I am just asking what happened to the hundreds of thousands of greek soldiers living and stationed in Afghanistan for hundreds of years. There were so many greek cities. Did they all just die out? All just disappeared? Thats impossible. Also genetic testing they only do few provinces, not the whole country. I did an ancestry test and had 35% West Asian (iran, turkey etc), 28% Central Asian and 22% South Asian and 15% Baltics. I am Kandahari Pashtun
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We Iranians are not like westerners...we don't differentiate between each other like you want us to.
iranians always fucking compare themselves to greek n turks.. mothafuckas what about ur best friends to the east? north indians
Jattfitness why you gotta cuss bro? lol...are you talking about Parsi's?
Amin Rahnemaei we have always distinguished our sub ethnicities and different ethnicities. Apadana is a great example
TabbyAngel2 but we do not hate each other...we are always Iranians...united!
***** I'm Persian and I love Kurds. I really dislike the hatred the Kurds have for their Persian brothers and sisters.
Much appreciated
Very interesting
Do ancient and modern Egyptians. Some Black groups claim that sub saharan Africans are close related to ancient egyptians. Im curious. Make sure you show my comment in the video. 😉
Egyptians looked a lot like what modern day East Africans look like, not the same as African American blacks
So basically more tan versions of the modern day Egyptians😂😂
33 seconds ago african americans are direct ancestors from West Africa. Its like saying native americans are not related to western asians. Ofc not.
33 seconds ago you cannot relate african americans to egyptians this are two separated regions. African American are western africans different ethnic group from East Africa.
Miau.
The Pamiris language is closely related to Pashto of the Pashtuns and their languages are considered Eastern Iranian.
@Lel E IVe seen Punjabis wear Afghani style vests, hats, and clothes as well in Pakistan. They even have Afghanistan style rugs in their house.
@Lel E I think we sometimes forget that parts of Pakistan was part of Afghanistan 100 years ago and the region as a whole has been incorporated in different empires for about 3000 years.
Pamiris language is derived from pashtu language
So we can say they small branch pashtun
@@depressionandanxietysoltio8508 No it doesnt, lol. And i say that as a pashtun
@@ateyo7554
Pamiris are Tajiks in ethnicity
If you're Pamiri do have a DNA test
Pamiri is made of Old Samanid Persian language
I'm so glad I found this channel...btw, hopse so you'll make video about Slavs(I'm Croat myself)
fredrikstadtilian which mean avarian not slav...
although you tried to provocate me, there is different racial make-up in the Balkan region surely, as well in Slavic groups as well.
another interesting and concise video
Iran / Persia is the one constant in the region historically, as a nation state. Amazing.
Nope. It was Afghanistan also known as Ariana in antiquity with Bactria as its capital. Iran just stole the name.
@@bengom5839 😆🤥
@@bengom5839 don't make a joke
@@bengom5839 خخخ همین مونده پانافغان داشته باشیم ، خدا بگم چکارتون کنه پانتورک ها و پانکردها که راه رو برا غضبلات گفتن همه باز کردین ، بیاید تحویل بگیرید 😂🤣😏🥱🤙🤡🥴
Sasanid empire called their terrority (that would be both modern Iran and Afghanistan) EranShahr. no one stole any name.@@bengom5839
Thank you man for this informative video. You have a very impartial view on things.
As a Hazara, we are Turko-Mongol and Persian mix. Genetically we are more Turko-Mongol, but culturally and linguistically we are Persians. Not to mention the majority of Hazaras are Shia muslims like Iranian Persians, in a Sunni dominated country, Afghanistan.
Us Hazaras are actually not very mongol. I've seen dna tests that say we're only 5% mongol. That's not enough to claim that we are of the mongols. Dna tests of Hazaras usually say about half turkic, a quarter persian and some other east asian and south asian here and there, but again not enough to claim those. We were right by the silk road so there was a lot of mixing but originally we were turk and persian. So we are Turko-Persian.
If one thing is clear, is us being Mongol. But true we are mixed. I recommend you search more about it. @@jamjamz8439
Hazaras are Afghanis.
bullshit if brown and hairy persian with a mongol their mix will look too different from hazara.
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Come again?
good video man .....love from rasht
i loved the cover, u couldn't find any badder
The picture that you are showing with blue eyes is actually Pashtun from the kochi tribes .not Tajik .
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Get a life bro
Wazir Jaan no one gives a fuck about that we all Afghan
They are both Persians
@@edrolbueno2390 no theyre not. the girl in the thumbnail with green eyes is an afghan PASHTUN not persian
Do genetics on people from the Balkans.
Excellent video Mr. Masaman. Very informative.
Any Afghan Persians here🇦🇫
Afghans ain’t Persian
Night Fox but they are sweetie
Zohra Salim no they aren’t stupid only heratis are
The Tajiks are the Persians in Afghanistan
Patron Thank you!
I'm afghan from nuristan ethnicity
Very informative thanks as an iraqi Kurd I can understand farsi, the modern Tehran farsi is very different than the population of iran or ordinary citizens can understand each other
You are Kurd. I like.
Yes
Kurds are Iranians does that hurt you I say that? My mom is Kurd from Bukan and Sanandaj Iran, and you are Iraqi Kurd and you’re Iranian too because Kurds are a Iranian ethnic group
Hey masaman, what is your ancestry, what countries do you have from your DNA? I'm curious
nice vedio
Do a video on Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians (more correctly, members of the Church of the East), as they both had a rich past from Iran to Central Asia and indeed even China and now they both number very few. You could address an alternate history in which either religious group (or both) is much more numerous to this day.
The azeris are not of turkish origin. Turkish tribes came from east asia in the time of Turkic migration. Azarbaijan (Atropatene) has been an ancient iranian province since ever. They are in fact one of the first iranian tribes, but persia had (mostly after samanids) lots of foreign rulers and lots of them had turkish origin and their capital city was mostly in todays azerbaijan. That's one of the reasons they speak a mixed persian/turkish language which we now call azeri. But the old-azeri language belongs to the dead languages, it was a nord-iranian language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Azeri
Please do a Bangladesh/Bengal genetics video
hello there, you know if there is an Indo-Iranian ethnicity that does not live in Iran??
possibly one in Afghanistan or Pakistan or both aside of the Dehwari????
Afghanistan have many different cultures
Mostly speaks Farsi
Dari/Farsi and Pashto is the language spoken the most in Afghanistan.
Afghans speak dari Not Farsi
Actually mostly understand farsi but natively Pashto has more speakers. Farsi is understood by 70%-80% though
@@northernstar6837 dari IS farsi
@@akh700 they are 2 VERY different dialects. Most Iranians would NEVER speak dari lol
A lot of important and interesting facts here, although some mistakes. I am a Baluch, and I was a little disappointed that you didn't mention the Baluch, who are a missing piece of this puzzle. Our language contains words more ancient (similar to ancient Persian languages) than Kurdish and todays Farsi (which was brought back to life after about 400 years of arab occupation). Our history, our language, and our heritage is connected with the "Persian people" (Persians, Kurds, afghan, etc.) that you have mentioned here. I think studying the history of Baloch will add to many answers of the missing dots. Although the majority of the Baluch people have origins connected with "Persian people" there are som sub-ethnic groups within the Baluch people who has their origins from different ethnicities such as arabs [due to geographical reasons, Baluchistan is close to the Arabian peninsula by sea. Also would like to add that many ethnic Baluch people (of greater Persian origin) are citizen and have history in Khaleej (Gulf countries such as Oman, UAE, Bahrain etc.)], also africans (due to slavery in Baluchistan and other costal areas of Iran), and there also exist some tribes with royal Indian origins (raj, rajput). Because of the geographical situation of Baluchistan (being divided in three: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan) the Baluch people have been exposed to ethnic cleansing (similar to Kurds in Turkish occupied Kurdestan) which has led to a lot of our culture to be affected due to Pakistani occupation who impose their culture on us. This is also what has happened to the Pashtun and most of them are not aware of this. If you listen to some Balochi or Pashtun music they can often sound similar to Indian music, this is a result of Pakistani politics of making one identity, which is a false and inorganic identity. The Baluch of Iran are also consider their land to be occupied by Persians, but at leas we are people who share same origins and if there are any tensions it is due to religious Shia/sunni reasons. I would also like to add that the in the book that brought modern day Farsi back to life the "ShahName", one of the main heroes of this book, Rustam (and also Sohrab) were Baluch. My fathers DNA-results from national geographics DNA-test clearly concluded my father as an ethnic Iranian, but there were also many genetic ties to people of the Mediterranean (almost 35%). I respect all ethnicities, this is just to add some context into history.
Too long; didn’t read.
I have headache jus looking at this
@@joshfloria2895 ill aimplify,baloch language is also part of eastern iranic aka indo european language family similar to farsi,pashto,etc,
I went to Zabul this spring after they had snow in last winter after almost 2 decades. The magic and beauty that I saw cannot be understated. Reading the Shahnameh and the tales of our historic heroes of old (such as the legendary Surena) in that beautiful scenery made me cry
I am from Afghanistan, Although I have a very little study of history of this region, this peace of information seems to be very accurate
@Iwwy Iw Pathan is the Indian word for Pashtuns
Today's Iranians are genetically the same as the ancient Persians. Let me explain.
First off, there's hardly any arab admixture within Iranians today. Practically none. I recommend actually looking at their genetics. Semitic/Arab haplogroups such as J1 are very rarely found within Iranians. There was an admixture study done as well showing there's barely any arab admixture, and the little that there is, is extremely minor and only found in the south-west of the country.
The reason Iranians look the way they do is because the Indo-Europeans (originally white) migrated down to the Iranian plateau region, and integrated the native populations of the region under their culture, language, and identity of Aryan/Iranian, and also mixed in with them. Some look "whiter" because they have dominant Indo-European phenotypes. The truth is that the vast majority of Iranians today have remained genetically stable since ancient times. Ancient Persia was never a white empire to begin with. They were the exact same as today's Persians.
So for any Eurocentrists who want to claim "WE WUZ KANGZ, WE USED TO BE CYRUS N SHIEEET": you guys are just as retarded and clownish as the Africans who believe the ancient Egyptians were black.
This is the truth. It is actually impossible to find genetic and concrete evidence showing otherwise. Genetics, DNA, and historical/anthropological evidence don't lie. Have a good day.
well no one is denying what you are stating. But please explain to us the term "white"
well, today they are more "mixed" than 2500 years ago
lots of persians are white even their president idc what anyone says i can look at people myself and see that creamy skin lol
Soren S. Expect ur all wrong but I won’t go into that but I will say Egypt was black I’m Egyptian and I’m 100% Egypt was black
lots of then was white lol have you even been anywhere
Do you watch geography now , cause he uploaded a video about Iran too today
Yeah! I saw that he released a video about Kurds and Iran last night. I've been planning this video for weeks and our content style is very different, so I hope he doesn't think I was copying him or anything.
Masaman Haha no it's actually pretty interesting cause your content is different but still about the same subject so it's not copying
So much negative energy and racism in the comment section of many of Masaman's videos, it's tiring. Many of you are so uncultured and seem to be living in your own little bubble. Think for *yourselves* and stop letting people with troubled minds and negative energy tell you what is what etc.
The racist tajiks believe they are superior to pashtuns and hazaras both culturely and genetically and they also think that they are on par in population with pashtuns. You'll mostly hear them refer to pashtuns as South Asians, and hazaras as mongols but they'll call themselves central Asian one day and west Asian the next day.
We're all related!
Michael B yes we are family. Can I have some money? J/k
legofreak446 He said "we're all related" not "we're all the same" lol you fucktard
33 seconds ago ur name is confusing
Muslym1 Ghumman
legofreak446: we are indeed all related. I can't believe you got three likes. At least you're not the only dumb ass.
I love your videos but this one had so many inaccurate things, if you want I can help you with them, but still I think it was a good video.
I like listening to you make pronounce the names you did pretty good
Hazara's are also found in Pakistan . And physically they are more related to Turkic rather than Persians . M Balti ( the only sino tibetian group in Pakistan ), but most of my friends would think of me as Turkic . Due to similarities in appearance.
Lol! You high?
Heights of inferiority complex! 🤦♂️
those Hazaras are immigrant afghans. Pakistanis are only of Indian descent and from your profile pic anyone in this comment section will that you're either Pakistani or Indian so i don't know if your friends are high on something to self delude you.
They probably have migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan
U sure ur hazara? U look Indian.
3 notes:
1. Part of Pamirians (mostly Wakhi) live in Pakistan, too, quite many.
2. Hazara descend more from Turks than Mongols (plus the previous population of the area).
3. Before the arrival of Indo-Europeans (mostly Indo-Iranians) Middle East was entirely populated by other peoples speaking their own languages (non-IE), and their genetic contribution to subsequent population of the area is recognisable. Even miraclous blondes in Hindukush and other places (mostly highlands) are not any "pure" relicts of Indo-Iranian migration from the area between Black sea, Caspian sea and Ural mountains (those could have diverse phenotype, by the way).
Yeah. My hair is black and my skin is tan, while my brother has red hair and is whiter than me. We have the same eyes, however
At around 4:10, you mentioned Turkey. I think maybe your description is a bit off, but I don't know the truth. I just know that the Turkic people from the east came to Turkey only within the last few centuries, and definitely no more than about 1500 years ago. I think before that, you had maybe a mixture of Indo-Europeans (Yamna?), and Near-Eastern farmer stock. Maybe this would make for a good video, and you can help me to know the situation in detail?
Do a video on how race and culture heavily effect modern geography that will be a great video
Check out my second channel called "Mason the Man." I'm probably going to release a video tonight about that very same topic, discussing the evolution of race in different areas of the planet.
Masaman thanks bro
and what about Semites in Iran??
One major mistake in this video that I suggest you do more research on. I am half azari, but Azaris in Iran are genetically much closer to the rest of the Iranian population than to the Turks to the west. A genetic study was done and confirmed this hypothesis. Linguistically because of the proximity to the Ottoman empire, and the influence of that empire, the language sipped into those regions.
Malousak, Agreed but only one minor correction. Language is Turkic not Turkish.
yes , they were called Caucasian Tatars before that time
Azerbaycanies have mongoloid genes ..persians dont
Malousak you are wrong. the average central asian dna of the people of turkey is around 5-30% but people from north iran also have 5-15% central asian dna on average. They just dont identify with it as much as turkish people. Because the central asians werent altering the persian culture like in Turkey.
What do you think of Modern day Dalmatians which the last speaker died in XIX century and do you think they used to make a sort of 'Latin bridge' between Italy and Romania in what is now Yugoslavia? Buna nuat.
I think you have a misunderstanding about Indo-European people. According to Geno 2 project carried out by National Geographic, Indo-Europeans were the people who left East Africa around 70,000 years ago and gradually settled in present day Iran, Turkey and the east Mediterranean coast. It took another 30,000 to 40,000 years for these Indo-Europeans to start migrating to northern Europe as well as parts of present day Afghanistan and central Asia. that's why according to Geno 2 project , Europeans generally have a strong Mediterranean component around 30% to 40% which is common with their Indo-European ancestors. Another confusing factor is that on the last 1000 years, many Europeans travelled East through the silk road and in the last 500 this trend accelerated. This affected the Iranian gene pool as well. According to Geno 2, the average Iranian has 8% Northern European heritage which is a result of relatively recent migration from northern Europe to the Middle East.
You mention Aimak/aymak and show pictures of pashtun boys??????
Tajiks, North Afghans and most Iranians are all ethnic Persians.
Dariush Ashkani good, take them to Iran.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Tajiks are notorious for bacha bazi in Mazar-I-sharif, and making their daughters dress like boys.
dariush ashkani u r right brother, soon pashtuns must go to india,
Doni Habib Nurmagamedov Khrosoni you literally have the biggest warlord Ahmad as your background picture. Tajiks have no voice or validation in Afghanistan lmao, why do you think every single president has been Pashtun?? The entire government have always been Pashtuns. Tajiks have never been leaders, they do nothing other than practise bacha bazi, and bacha is a word in YOUR language dari. Take pride in that :)
Kurdish Aryan Median Hurrian Hittite pashtun.Afghanistan is the land of pashtun.
Afghan mean pashtun and pashtun mean Afghan other All ethnics is migrate from different countries and they settled in Afghanistan and adopted Afghan costumes.
In whole Afghanistan I love my pashtun and after pashtuns
Pashai and Pamiris is our brothers .because we are same
ethnic iranians. There are no ethnic persians. Persia is a region in Iran.
At 1:11 u said over 7000 miles but wrote 7112 kilometers on the screen.
In the classical Persian literary tradition - the entire vocabulary of which consists of stock phrases and images - "Turk' and 'Tajik' are stand-in terms for easily recognizable social stereotypes: one simple but violent; the other wily but civilized. Rūmi turns this on its head, however, in the following couplet: Attack upon attack came the darkness of night/Be strong like a Turk, not soft like a Tajik' (Yek hamleh va yek hamleh, āmad shab va tārīkī/chosti kon va "Torki' kon, na narmī va ‘Tājīkī'). Often ‘Turk' was also used to refer to the poet's beautiful young (unattainable) beloved, as in the following lines from Sa'di: 'Maybe they'll tell the King/"Your Turk (i.e., your Beloved) has spilled Tajik blood" (Shayad ke be padshah begüyand/Tork-e tö berikht khūn-e Tājīk), or elsewhere, 'Show your Tajik face, not Abyssinian black/That the Heavens may obliterate the face of the Turks' (Ru-ye Tājīkāna-t benmā, tā dagh-e habash/ Asman chehre-ye Torkān yaghma'i keshad).
Since Turkic men often ‘married up’ and started families with Tajik women, the bloodlines tended to become increasingly mixed over the generations. (Recent DNA studies in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have shown no notable genetic difference between modern Uzbeks and Tajiks.) And since children typically spent their first years within the harem, the influence of Tajik mothers in constructing the identity of their mixed-race children was surely much greater than is admitted in the patriarchal written sources of the time. Military figures in particular often made much of their tough Turkic heritage, even as they sought to demonstrate their own cultivation by speaking Persian
and patronizing Persian courtly culture. The Tajik scribes, for their part, were
naturally required to flatter their patrons, but they flattered themselves as well
in whatever subtle ways they could.
- Richard Foltz, Chapter 4, Tajiks and Turks, The Turk-Tajik symbiosis