Amazing! researchers find evidence of an ancient Hungarian-speaking community

It seems like researchers have found genetic traces of a Hungarian-speaking group in the area of the supposed ancestral home of Hungarians called Magna Hungaria. It is the place located in the region of the Ural Mountains and the Volga that Friar Julian visited to find Hungarians’ ancestral home.

An international research group including some Hungarian scientists may have found genetic traces of the Hungarians living in the East that Friar Julian reported about. The group of Estonian and Hungarian researchers published their findings in the Scientific Reports, according to Femina.

Friar Julian travelled East at the beginning of the 13th century. His trip was a success as he ended up finding people who spoke Hungarian. However, the Mongol invasion hit the area soon after, and the tribes living in Central Asia assimilated mostly to the Bashkir group or to the Volga Tatars. For a while, it seemed like the Hungarian-speaking group also disappeared, but it now seems like they left some traces behind.

New findings: the common genetic component

The question Mathematician-Computer Scientist Endre Németh and Historian Tibor Fehér set out to answer is what the genetic connection to the group whose language is the closest to ours is like, namely, the Ob-Ugric people, especially the Mansi and Khanty groups. Richard Williams, the late director of the Estonian Academy, and Siiri Rootsit, the leading researcher of the common genetic component, as well as Helen Post, are also part of the research group.