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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Group of Eastern Iranic languages For other uses, see Scythian (disambiguation). It has been suggested that this article be split into a new article titled Pontic Scythian language. (discuss) (November 2024) Scythian Geographic distribution Central Asia, West Asia, Eastern Europe ...
Therefore, the Scythians and the nomads of the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex were closely related populations who shared a common origin, culture, and language, [42] and the earliest Scythians were therefore part of a common Aržan-Chernogorovka cultural layer originating from Central Asia, with the early Scythian culture being materially ...
The names of the Scythians are a topic of interest for classicists and linguists. The Scythians were an Iranic people best known for dominating much of the Pontic steppe from about 700 BC to 400 BC. The name of the Scythians is believed to be of Indo-European origin and to have meant "archer". The Scythians gave their name to the region of Scythia.
The Scythian genealogical myth was an epic cycle of the Scythian religion detailing the origin of the Scythians.This myth held an important position in the worldview of Scythian society, and was popular among both the Scythians of the northern Pontic region and the Greeks who had colonised the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus.
The name of the Massagetaean prince, recorded in the Greek form Spargapisēs (Σπαργαπισης) and reflecting the Scythian form *Spargapis, is of Scythian language origin, and his name and the name of the Agathyrsi king Spargapeithes and the Scythian king Spargapeithes (Scythian: *Spargapaiϑah) are variants of the same name, and are ...
The Cimmerians were a Iranic people [331] sharing a common language, origins and culture with the Scythians, [18] [332] although they may have been an ethnically heterogeneous tribal confederation living under an Iranic aristocracy, not unlike how the polity of the Scythians consisted of various peoples living under the dominance of the Iranic ...
Due to the sound change from /δ/ to /l/ which had already happened by the 5th century BC, the form *Skula was used by the Scythians by the time that Herodotus of Halicarnassus had recorded the Scythian genealogical myth, [4] [7] as attested by the name of the 5th century BC Scythian king Scyles (Σκυλης), which is the Hellenisation of the ...
The name Melanchlaeni is a Latinisation of the ancient Greek name Melankhlainoi (Ancient Greek: Μελάγχλαινοι), which meant "Black-Cloaks." [2]The Greek name might have been a translation of an ancient Iranic name [3] meaning "those who wear black garments," [4] whose later form, Sawdarata, was recorded in Ancient Greek as Saudaratai (Ancient Greek: Σαυδαραται; Latin ...