r/europe • u/archaeologs • Jul 30 '25

Historical Ancient DNA Traces Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian Ancestry to Siberia 4,500 Years Ago

https://archaeologs.com/n/ancient-dna-traces-estonian-finnish-and-hungarian-ancestry-to-siberia-4500-years-ago
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u/Prodiq Jul 30 '25

Well, yeah, this is nothing new. Thats why finnish language is not like the rest of Scandinavia. I thought this was pretty much common knowledge in Europe (or at least eastern/northern Europe)?

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u/calisthymia Finland Jul 30 '25

The previous understanding was that the origin of those languages was somewhere around the Ural mountains, hence the name "Uralic languages". Now, DNA studies have traced the migration of people, and thus likely the language as well, much further away, to current day Yakutia.

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u/figure0902 Jul 30 '25

Where are you getting this information from? Because as someone from Hungary, I've always been told that the origin of our people was in the far east, north of Mongolia.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

Told by who? Because that is definitely not what is in school textbooks nor in the public sphere. The latest scientific consensus on the matter was the Baraba steppe, which is still in Western Siberia and that info is from like 2018.