# Are Europeans in effect Mongols?

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**Created:** [April 28, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-europeans-in-effect-mongols/106117 "2002-04-28T14:55:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-europeans-in-effect-mongols/106117/21 "2002-04-29T19:48:48Z")

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Overjoyed! 🙂

:Sparc bows deeply in respect of **Lemur866** ’s magnificence:

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**Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-europeans-in-effect-mongols/106117/22 "2002-04-30T20:24:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Collounsbury \*  
> (BTW ? it is absolutely incorrect to say there are no more Indo-European languages in Central Asia. Dialects of Farsi are spoken throughout the region, as are Indic languages.)

I don’t know if this was addressed to me or not, but I want to make it clear that I was referring to _one part_ of central Asia 1K+ miles east of where IE speakers are commonly found nowadays. Islam penetrated a surprising ways into Sinkiang, bringing Indo-Iranian languages with it. But I was talking about pre-Islamic people’s further east.

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