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Khatso ethnography in the context of Mongolian Historical Studies
Topic Started: Jun 11 2018, 03:07:04 PM (23 Views)
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(We originally had a different thread on the Khatso people. This one is a heavily altered version of the one I deleted some longer period of time ago.)

Cheng Baoweng write about Khatso y-chromosomes:
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Our recent study indicated that all Mongolians clustered together in Y-STR data, including the TongHai Mongolians (our unpublished data). The extant TongHai Mongolians take the north-prevalent haplogroups (51.5%), and no European-specific haplotypes were observed.


However, most Khatsos would be in paragroup F(xK) according to Yang Zhili et al. 2005
n=46
F-M89+,M9-: 73,9%
K-M119-,M95-,M122-,M45-: 6,5%
M95: 2,2%
M122+,M7-,M134-: 8,7%
M134+: 8,7%

If F(xK) isn't Western, it won't be likely to be "originally Mongolian" but rather local like Lahu F. Or "F" is actually C, which would mean an error in the table. Then they could be within the M504+/M401+ group together with Hazaras etc.

mtDNA (Cheng Baoweng et al. 2008, n=46)
potentially typical North Asian groups:
C*: 6,5%
C4: 2,2%
D4*: 10,9%
D4a: 2,2%

more groups:
A: 6,5%
B4d+B*: 8,7%+4,3%=13,0%
F1a+F1c: 4,3%+4,3%=8,7%
G1+G2+G*: 2,2%+4,3%+2,2%=8,7%
M7b1: 2,2%
M8a: 4,3%
M11: 4,3%
M*: 2,2%
R9a+R9b+R9*: 2,2%+4,3%+6,5%=13,0%
Z: 8,7%

Sources:
Cheng et al.: Genetic imprint of the Mongol: signal from phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA; doi: 10.1007/s10038-008-0325-8
Svantesson: "The phonology of Mongolian"
Yang Zhili et al. 2005: "The distribution of Y chromosome haplogroups in the nationalities from Yunnan Province of China"

Present-day Khatso people trace their ancestry back to medieval Mongols who mixed with locals. Interestingly, a wikipedia author states that Khatso-speakers adopted Mongolian culture only recently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatso
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In the early 1980s, village elders sent a delegation to Inner Mongolia to re-learn about their long lost Mongolian culture. They adopted customs similar to Mongols in the north gradually, and wrestling became their favorite sport when they saw how popular it was with other Mongols.


Khatso ethnography is, thus, by no means medieval Mongolian ethnography. But it can give clues concerning the construction of present-day Mongolian identities and contemporary sociographic phenomena like the popularity of Бөх / Үндэсний бөх / Bökh / ᠪᠦᠺᠡ.

Furthermore, Khatso language is possibly neither a father tongue nor a mother tongue but a regional lingua franca (perhaps like Hazaragi in Afghanistan). Then again, the glottolog tree features a http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kazh1234 "Kazhouish" linguistic cluster of three tongues including "Katso", "Sadu" and "Samatao". So Khatso language could be a mother tongue rather than a father tongue...

Anyway, feel free to check whether you can find any cultural or other pecularities which could give clues as for medieval Mongolian cultural history. Even dissimilarities might be of interest...

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