Large tribes collectively known as the Scythians …
Years: 765BCE - 622BCE
Large tribes collectively known as the Scythians live in the area of present-day Kyrgyzstan beginning about 1000 BCE.
The extinct Scythian language belonged to the two-member West Scythian subfamily, of which Ossetian, the language of a people of mixed Iranian-Japhetic (Caucasian) origin inhabiting the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range, is the surviving member.
Speakers of the East Scythian tongues, therefore, may be characterized as the Scythians who remained on the steppes of Central Asia.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
