Madjars

The Madjars or Madi-yar people are a Turkic ethnic group in Kazakhstan. They number about 1,000–2,000 and live mostly in the Kostanay Region. The Madjars have been linked onomastically to the Magyars (Hungarians) in Europe by proponents of Hungarian Turanism like Zsolt András Biró.

This claim is contested by Turkologist scholar Imre Baski, who translate Madjar as 'faithful Muslim'.

Like the Magyars, the Madjars have been linked genetically to peoples of the Caucasus, modern Iranians and the neighbouring Argyn people: 86.7% of 45 samples of Y-DNA belonged to Haplogroup G. The biggest problem with Bíro's focus on Haplogroup G, that it is considered very rare in Hungary (around 3%). However it has much higher ratio in Southern Europe like Italy, and in Western Europe like France, but even Southern German populations have higher ratio of Haplogroup G than the Hungarian population.

Bibliography

• A. Z. Bíró, A. Zalán, A. Völgyi, and H. Pamjav. 2009. "A Y-chromosomal comparison of the Madjars (Kazakhstan) and the Magyars (Hungary)." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139:3, pp. 305–310.
• Nándor Dreisziger. 2011. "Genetic Research and Hungarian 'Deep Ancestry'": p. 3.
• D. Vanek, et al." 2009. "Kinship and Y-Chromosome Analysis of 7th Century Human Remains: Novel DNA Extraction and Typing Procedure for Ancient Material". Croatian Medical Journal, 50:3, pp. 286–95.

External links

• Template:Hu hu:Madjarok equivalent article in Hungarian WikipediaTemplate:Ethno-group-stub