Yaghnobi People (Sogdians)

The Yaghnobi people (Yaghnobi: yaγnōbī́t; Tajik: яғнобиҳо, yağnobiho/jaƣnoʙiho) are an ethnic minority in Tajikistan. They inhabit Tajikistan's Sughd province in the valleys of the Yaghnob, Qul and Varzob rivers. The Yaghnobis are considered to be descendants of the Sogdian-speaking peoples who once inhabited most of Central Asia beyond the Amu Darya River in what was ancient Sogdia.
They speak the Yaghnobi language, a living Eastern Iranian language (the other living members being Pashto, Ossetic and the Pamir languages). Yaghnobi is spoken in the upper valley of the Yaghnob River in the Zarafshan area of Tajikistan by the Yaghnobi people, and is also taught at schools. It is considered to be a direct descendant of Sogdian and has often been called Neo-Sogdian in academic literature.
The 1926 and 1939 census data gives the number of Yaghnobi language speakers as approximately 1,800. In 1955, M. Bogolyubov estimated the number of Yaghnobi native speakers as more than 2,000. In 1972, A. Khromov estimated 1,509 native speakers in the Yaghnob valley and about 900 elsewhere. The estimated number of Yaghnobi people is approximately 25,000.
The Sogdian language is one of the Iranian languages, along with Bactrian language, Khotanese Saka, Persian language, Tadjik language, Pasto language, the Kurdish languages and Parthian language. It possesses a large historic literary corpus.
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@Adam's Son That's Niyaz, a Persian singer living in Canada. The song played here is called "Mahtaab".

[@allisonrich5061]

The Sogdians were the some of the greatest traders of the ancient Silk Road. They are still remembered.

[@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat]

They were leaders of solk road. they carried manichean religion to Central Asia, and carried writing alphabet

[@Ericsson_Mackenzie]

I'm from Yagnab, and I proud of being from Sogdians clan...

[@axpowrt3456]

Shoma ariyayie pak hastid

[@amazingamx1255]

If you are pure blooded, please have atleast 10 children. The world misses your people. You are some of the best of what the human race has to offer. Make the world a better place by increasing your population

[@alangivre2474]

Sogdian civilization was impressive. An ancient cosmopolitan culture.

[@SkloxTheBeep]

Hey , a fellow iranian here! Im from iran, and I'm wondering if we can talk about your language and your culture! I'd be very happy if we could make contact and chat! Thanks for responding in advance, and im waiting for your response

[@MrForeman2022]

i know those people are sogdian, and they created Silk Road from ancient time

[@KeyhaneBishomar]

Much love from Iran to my Tajik and khurasuani brothers and sisters ❤️

[@iraniha7939]

Hulwan Párshátti We’re glad to have you here. Thanks a lot 🙏🏻. Love Iran too 🇮🇷💕🇹🇯

[@persiansoundsAfg]

Nothing to do with Iran you guys are closer to Assryians and souther Caucasus people .. Tajiks, Pashtuns, and Walkhi people are from the Sogdians these Tajiks Pashtuns and Walkhi don’t speak Farsi and they all cluster together genetically and linguistically.

[@persiansoundsAfg]

@@KeyhaneBishomar No they are not, East Iranic is not the same as regular Iranians. Iranians don’t have the R-Z93 Haplogroup like Afghans and Tajiks do. Iranians belong to the J Haplagroup and have only 9% Sintasha ancestry. Tajiks/Afghans have 30%-50% Sintasha ancestry. Iranians are manly of iranian chalcolithic and southern Caucasus and Arab admixture’s. Here is your Iranian scientist saying any Aryan contribution to iran came from Central Asia and Afghans but it’s very minimal Iranians are indigenous to the area of Iran and Iraq. The only Iranians that have higher Sintasha ancestry are Mashadis and other eastern Iranians because historically the area was a buffer zone with Afghanistan. Iranian zoroastrians also have high steppe ancestry because they migrated from northern Afghanistan. But majority of Iranian population lives in western Iran and they are the majority kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWjdoqtmjrqJeNE

[@awianjam2402]

@@persiansoundsAfg No, Haplogroup is not the only factor to determine the race of a people. For example, some people in the Caucasus have the same Y-DNA as the Arabs but they have different genetic admixtures and they are two different and distinct populations as the result, the genetic admixture is more important than the Y-DNA haplogroup. Persians are one of the closest people to Yaghnobis and even they are closer to Persians than some Pashtuns. All Iranians are related and nobody can deny this.

[@persiansoundsAfg]

@@awianjam2402 Lmao no Iranian is closer to Yaghnobis than a Afghan lmao Iranians besides khorosan province are heavily of Iranian Chalcolthic..

[@DJGokhanDnctrk]

Sogdians culture and Yaghnobi language are definitely World heritage. 💚🧿

[@thedamned8202]

Sogdian is my favorite middle Iranian language

[@MrThebarron007]

wow, Alexander the Great's wife Roxana was a Sogdian, and was described as very pale with red hair much like the children at 2:03 have! fascinating to compare the current peoples to their ancestors and see the similarities!

[@melanphilia]

That mesmerising voice of the Loveliest *_AZAM_* *_ALI_* and the beautiful faces of these children is piercing my heart Greetings and all the blessings 😊😍 Am proud of my persian-azari heritage

[@blck1175]

Don't mention your Shia nonsense here

[@persiansoundsAfg]

Sogdians have nothing to do with Iran. You guys are closer to Assryians and your Caucasus neighbors..Tajiks, Pashtuns, and Walkhi people are from the Sogdians these Tajiks Pashtuns and Walkhi don’t speak Farsi and they all cluster together genetically and linguistically.

[@melanphilia]

@@blck1175 which part of what I said is shia " nonsense" ? Do you have problems with your eyesight?

[@melanphilia]

@@persiansoundsAfg it necessarily has nothing to do with speaking farsi exclusively. As for assyrians you've mentioned , it's rarely close to 10% in some populations, mostly the part of population close to south west. As for sogdians, we do share same ancestry to some degree, feel free to correct me with any credible source, would be much appreciated.

[@amazingamx1255]

Apparently we Pashtuns are genetically half sogdian. Sogdians invaded Pashtun lands and brought the Pashto language. Our other half being native Dravidian/Brahui.

[@Jumpertj]

Most people don't understand. I'm not Tajik nor Persian, im Sogdian!

[@amazingamx1255]

Do you speak sogdian?

[@ulasyarjalalzai]

Love from your Pashtun brother...

[@billsidiqi57]

@@Sarahh_28 I'm not Pashtun but according to all sources Pashtuns are east iranic people (linguistically and genetically). Today only 4 east Iranic languages survived (Pashto, ossetian, Yaghnobi and Pamiri languages).

[@billsidiqi57]

@@Sarahh_28 east iranic languages developed similar phonetics which suggest that they have a common origin *=Old iranic. > = common shift for example /*b/ > /v/ Pashto '*vror', Yaghnobi 'virot', Sogdian 'vrāt', Shughni (Pamiri) 'virod', in Persian it would be 'barādar --> English [ brother ] /*g/ > /gh/ Pashto 'ghar', Yaghnobi 'ghar', Sogdian 'ghar', Bactrian "Ghor' etc. In middle Persian 'gar' --> English [ mountain ] /ch/ > /ts/ Pashto 'tsalor', Shughni 'tsavur', Khwarizmian 'tsafur', ossetian 'tsippar' etc. While In Persian 'chahār' and Kurdish "char' -> English [ four ] /j,ch/ > /dz/ Pashto 'pindza', ossetian 'fondz', Shughni (Pamir) 'pindz' etc. While in Persian 'panj' -> English 'five' /f/ > /v/ Pashto 'ovä' , ossetian 'avd', Sogdian 'ävda' , Shughni 'ūvd' In Persian and Kurdish 'haft' --> English [ seven ] etc.

[@billsidiqi57]

@@Sarahh_28 well Pashtuns cluster with tajiks from Afghanistan and Tajiks from Tājikistan ( more distantly). The only difference is that Pashtuns have more South Asian admixure, while Tajiks mixed more with Turks but they are still very close to each other

[@yourwifesfirsthusband2038]

@@billsidiqi57 Also wakhi is east iranian

[@rameen7646]

@@yourwifesfirsthusband2038 wakhis are like punjabis, they have nothing to do with iranic people

[@kingofpersia3264]

Nice video, please keep sharing such wonderful videos.

[@user-Milkriversandmysewing]

Спасибо за видео.Интересно посмотреть на другую жизнь,мне неизвестную.👍🤝

[@mmd000]

What a nice video and thank you for the informationing about the Yaghnob humans. Lovely from Turkey 😇

[@delaramsalmassi4063]

I wish Turkey could come back to Iran!

[@UNKNOWN-tl3ks]

@@delaramsalmassi4063 what?

[@delaramsalmassi4063]

@@UNKNOWN-tl3ks Turkey was a part of Iran and should returnere back to Iran!

[@delaramsalmassi4063]

@@UNKNOWN-tl3ks Turkey was a part of Iran and should return back to Iran!

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@@delaramsalmassi4063 what🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣your country ruled by turks from seljuqs to qajars))).

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Keep ‘em coming brother 🔥🔥🔥

[@spicytranslations9604]

I would love to go there and see the people!!

[@iraniha7939]

Spicy Translations Let’s make it happen! By the way where do you come from?

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@@iraniha7939 Utah, USA

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Spicy Translations OMG, I didn’t even have any idea that someone from the USA knows about these people!

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@@iraniha7939 I love learning about new groups of people and new languages. I'm kind of a language geek.

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Spicy Translations So do I

[@19981217rl]

My mother one of ancestor also Sogdian last name Mi to treat another Chinese Queen breast disease but whole family move to China around 1187 -1300. And then Sogdian intermarry Chinese in Canton province and Hong Kong and macau. I am interested to rebuild Sogdian as part of Sogdian family.

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درود بر برادران وخواهران هم تبارم تاجیکستان

[@tareekhtareekh3379]

good work

[@sayhi3707]

A thousand years ago, my ancestors were Sogdians

[@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat]

Mine too

[@prateekrai6260]

Ur from which country and tribe?

[@BT-nb5gw]

Same. I grew up Turkish I found this out in dna test

[@wanderingnomad1]

Alexander the Great married a Sogdian princess named Roxana.

[@arian9167]

Great beautiful persia❤🎊👑❤

[@johneli495]

Good looking people 👍

[@andrewmills6212]

Have they any idea about the location of the Sogdian Rock? Maybe in their folk lore?

[@Oset1]

Ossetians-Alans Yagnobs Pamirs Aryens

[@lovelyartin]

You forgot other Iranians! Persian, Kurds and others

[@suikzaxa9593]

@@lovelyartin i think he is talking about east Iranic people

[@lovelyartin]

@@suikzaxa9593 They are all Iranians

[@mohammadmian-thecanadian-p1594]

@@lovelyartin are you dumb or what? that wasn't the point

[@lovelyartin]

@@mohammadmian-thecanadian-p1594 I am talking about Iranian peoples! All belong to Iranian culture and history

[@ХристоР]

The true ancestors of the Bulgarians.....Thanks for the video

[@003mohamud]

proof? The old Bulgars were a Turkic people

[@abtinshariati58]

​@@003mohamud old bulgars are mixed of old western Iranian and old western turk peoplev

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

Bulgarians are a mix between Bulgar Western Turkics and Antean (Godo-Southslavic with some sarmatian dna) Slavs... Come to think of it, Bulgarians closest relative would be Romanians since they are an Antean-Dacian amixture.

[@ХристоР]

@@l-nolazck-rn24 Bulgarians today are so mixed that there is no actual one "core" ancient population that can be identified as ancestor. Even the nomadic people who came here were probably an iranic/turkic mix. However, it is clear that the religion of the ancient Bulgarians was some kind of Zoroastrianism that was prevalent in central Asia. Contrary to popular belief, they were not Tengrist. Some of our royalty were called "Magi" by the Byzantines.

[@l-nolazck-rn24]

@@ХристоР You can chalk up to them being of the multinational Black Huns though, and both Byzantine texts and genetic correlation does show that the Anteans were settled in that region with most Thracians and Bosphoric Greeks already out of the region. Yes some people migrated there but it wouldn't alter much of the main population. Though it makes sense that there is no clear origin given Bolghars would end up being more akin to a minority rule due to certain byzantine campaigns. Onto the rest. I'm pretty sure there is few evidence of the Bulgars being Iranic. While they may have had Iranics with them, if there were any left after the Anteans and Sarmatians moved west since the Bulgars didn't came from central asia but either a Siberian or European north. Either ways they would at most be related to a Scythian subgroup if not the Alans or Tocharians. Not the Sogdians or Bactrians which were further south. And lastly, many turkic and overall steppe peoples adopted Zoroastrian religions. Such as the Karluk, Yuezhi, later Hepthalites, Uyghur and Turkomen. I'm just overall saying it really is a stretch to consider them their ancestors, but I could have been unable to access Bulgarian research because I do not speak the language.

[@yaqubleis6311]

Nice video

[@iraniha7939]

Thanks

[@متکمالی]

درود بر تاجیکهای ایرانی

[@omarshinwari7823]

Their language literally sounds like pashto 😂😂 No suprise because pashto is the largest eastsern iranic language left. then ossetiam then yaghnobi

[@suppernova1184]

Are pamiri and yoghnobi same thing ?

[@kasyakyoubfgamindikisborat]

@@suppernova1184 Pamiri are Saka people. Yaghnobi are Sogdian

[@naim_sulaimankhel]

​@@suppernova1184Pamiris were Eastern Scythians, Ossetians were Western Scythians, Yaghnobis were Sogdians, Pashtuns were Paktians. That's the Ancient name of every of these people.

[@BT-nb5gw]

It turns out I’m a Sogdian and my ancestors are the yaghobis

[@amazingamx1255]

Bro, please have atleast 10 kids. You have very good genetics. You are pure blooded Iranic. Pashtuns are mixed with South Asians, Persians mixed with middleasterners etc. but you are pure

[@fnfjrkrjr7868]

What’s the name of the song used in this video ?

[@iraniha7939]

Mahtaab by Niyaz

[@fnfjrkrjr7868]

@@iraniha7939 thanks!

[@iraniha7939]

@@fnfjrkrjr7868 My pleasure

[@Kenan-jg4wx]

Like Kürdish

[@axpowrt3456]

Super pure Aryan people🔥🔥

[@prateekrai6260]

Original proto aryans

[@lkhagvajavmyagmarjav5635]

Ancient Sogdians Baktrians Kushans have ancient persian zoroastrian ( fire god religion ) and ancient indian buddist religion

[@ifrazali3052]

Not anymore

[@ifrazali3052]

@@aurora.andromeda5687 😂

[@AliSogdiani]

Sogdians SGD 🤍

[@1Sogdiana]

Sogdianas¹ SGD 🇩🇪🤍

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

Very nordic.......

[@axpowrt3456]

Aryanic*

[@jasonmuniz-contreras6630]

@@axpowrt3456 it was sarcasm