Talk:Scythians

Add Armenian, Greek, and New Persian transliterations

(Old Persian: Sakā; New Persian: ساکا Saka; Greek: Σάκαι Sakai; Armenian: սկյութները Skyout'nerə; Latin: Sacae, Sanskrit: शक Śaka), and Sai (Chinese: 塞; Old Chinese: *sˤək), respectively.[8]

Typo in expansionism section

typo in expansionism section "Scythian rule over the forest steppe people became increadingly dominating and coercive" please fix Bigburrt (talk) 07:02, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 January 2026

~2026-43251 (talk) 04:09, 3 January 2026 (UTC) Scythians were of Türkic origin, No way Iranian because :

1 - Scythians dwelled in Türkistan where there was was no inward migration always outward migration. There is no Persian migration to Türkistan.

2-Issık Kurgans are found in todays Kazakstan, home to Türks only never to any Persian ever.

3-Scythians used Runic alphabet like Türks, Persians used cuneiform writing. So it is impossible of Scythins being Persian.

4-Kurgan is only a Türkic attribute which also seen in Scythians.

5-Scythian is the name Greeks gave to Türks. Saka is the name Persians gave to Türks. same people. Priscus named Attila as the Head of Scytians. Attila Khan is Türk. You do the simple logic. Heredot says there were Scythians in Anatolia before Greeks.

6-It is Türks who domesticated horses, so were Scythians professional with horses.

7-Horse archery is a Türkic warfare not persian.

8-And the mind blower is Scythians and Persians were arch enemies. How come they be same nation.

9-Scythians invaded North parts of todays Iran. thats why some try to show them Iranian(actualyy they play with words because they cant say Persian, they say Iranian because Iran is name of a geography which was non existant at that time by the way. It is just make up to claim Scyhians are Iranians aka Persian)

Everything about this page is political propaganda because Russian scientist and historians doesn't want the truth to be revealed because if they reveal the truth and say they are Turkic people then they cannot claim Ukraine Crimea and south of Russia and By the way everything I said on top was taken from wikipedia itself so I believe you guys trust your own information right? ;)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before creating an edit request. Wow. --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 04:24, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Incorrect Term

In the section titled, Social organization, in the fourth paragraph, is the sentence...

Within Scythian priesthood there existed a group of transgender soothsayers, called the Anarya (lit. 'unmanly'), who were born and lived their early lives as men, and later in their lives assumed the mannerisms and social roles role of women.

In this sentence, the word "transgender" is not the correct word to use. The correct word is "transvestitic" (aka, cross-dressing), as the men were not transgender (females born with male bodies), but instead, men who cross-dressed.

Considering this, someone with the ability to edit the article needs to change the word.

- ~2026-86306-5 (talk) 20:44, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

I opted to remove the word "transgender" entirely as picking a side if they count as transgender or cross-dressers seems like violating WP:NPOV, particularly since gender is such a hot button issue these days. I definitely see the argument that they counted as transgender (since whatever greek writer who recorded this likely didn't care if they truly self identified as women or not), but there is no reason to pick a side here on such a currently hot button issue. Tideflat (talk) 18:23, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Ossetians

Currently the the Ossetian page says that they are descended from the Scythians. The current article doesn't mention the Oseetians. Now my impression is that this is disputed claim, but ideally the two articles wouldn't contradict each other. I suggest we centralize discussion at Talk:Ossetians#Scythian_origin. Tideflat (talk) 18:15, 24 July 2026 (UTC)