Madjars

{{About|an ethnic group from Kazakhstan|the Magyars of Europe|Hungarians}}

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.

Ethnonym

Turkologist scholar Dr. Imre Baski claims that the ethnonym Madjar means 'faithful Muslim', literally 'friend or follower of Muhammad', ultimately from Muhammad-i-yar.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/chapter-detail?id=609095|chapter=The Madijar: A Hungarian Tribe among the Kazakhs?|first=Baski|last=Imre|title=Csodaszarvas III|pages=189–208|publisher=Molnár Kiadó |access-date= 24 May 2020}}

{{Quotation|"Madi-yar that proved to be a compound anthroponym (Madi[y]-yar) of Arabic-Persian origin. The paper also provides the explanation of the anthroponyms Aldi-yar (’Allah’s friend/follower’) and Ḫudi-yar (’God’s friend/follower’), the “relatives” of Madi(y)-yar (’Muhammad’s friend/follower’)".{{Cite web|url=http://www.nytud.hu/nyk/107/03%20baski.pdf|title=A kazak madijar nemzetségnév és a magyar népnév állítólagos közös eredetéről|last=Baski|first=Imre|date=|website=|access-date=23 January 2017}}}}

Genetics

The Madjars have sometimes been linked onomastically to the Magyars (Hungarians); proponents of this view include supporters of "Hungarian Turanism", such as András Zsolt Bíró, who noticed the high frequency of Y-DNA Haplogroup G-M201 among Madiyars and the presence of Haplogroup G amongst Hungarians.{{cite journal |author=Biro, A. |author2=Zalan, A. |display-authors=et al. |title=A Y-Chromosomal Comparison of the Madjars (Kazakhstan) and the Magyars (Hungary) |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=139 |issue=3 |pages=305–10 |year=2009 |pmid=19170200 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.20984|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23940450}}

However, it is not supported by any strong material evidence. In fact, haplogroup G is rare in Hungary (at a rate around 3%) and has much higher rates in parts of Western and Southern Europe (e.g. Italy and France).

Southern German populations also have a higher rate of Haplogroup G than the Hungarian population.{{cn|date=September 2021}} Furthermore, Turkologist Imre Baski concluded that the Kazakh clan name Madi-yar "cannot possibly be linked to the Magyar ethnonym and thus cannot serve as proof for a relationship between Madiyar and Magyar."{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/chapter-detail?id=609095|chapter=The Madijar: A Hungarian Tribe among the Kazakhs?|first=Baski|last=Imre|title=Csodaszarvas III|pages=189–208|publisher=Molnár Kiadó |access-date= 24 May 2020}}

Footnotes

Bibliography

[http://ahea.net/admin/?path=admin/modules/journals/4/journalarticles/25/journalarticleattachments&request=modules/journals/journalarticleattachments&download=83&ajax=1 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.

Category:Ethnic groups in Kazakhstan

Category:Turkic peoples of Asia

Category:Turkic peoples

Category:Turkic people

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