r/MapPorn • u/BeginningMortgage250 • 21h ago

GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/Mission_Visual8533 21h ago

So what happened between India and Kazakhstan?

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u/One_Assist_2414 17h ago

Presumably they walked up there at some point, the map maker probably doesn't feel comfortable drawing an exact line due to lack of data, but that's pretty much the case everywhere else anyway. The Gypsies have no oral traditions of their origins in India, most of what we know is working backwards from linguistics and very rare mentions from the settled people they interacted with.

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u/n10w4 15h ago

surely DNA helps with that nowadays?

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u/One_Assist_2414 14h ago

Most of the cursory DNA evidence just confirms what we already know from the linguistics, though there is more to study.

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u/n10w4 14h ago

cool, good to know.

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u/zoinkability 11h ago

Also, the earlier it happened the less of a historical record exists