Line J1 among Chechens: shared with Dagestan and rare among the Ingush

Almost none among the Ingush

Its share is particularly high among several peoples of Dagestan:

Chechens, Dargins, Laks, Lezgins and Avars share a Caucasian branch of J1, 8,100 years old.

Not the Arabian branch

Inside J1 there is a second large branch, the Arabian one, 9,200 years old. It, not the Caucasian branch, lies behind the high share of J1 on the Arabian Peninsula and in Mesopotamia: 80% among Bedouins, 73% among Yemenis, 81% among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.

The Arabian branch is rare among Chechens. The common ancestor of the two branches lived 18,200 years ago.

Chechen and Dagestani lines occur on shared branches of J1. Lines from Turkey, Armenia, Iran and Iraq are also present alongside them.

Teips on line J1

The line is notable in 44 teips — among them Benoy and Gunoy.

Notable: Bagacharoy 45%, Hacharoy 44%, O'shni 43%, Key 38%, Arboy-Qureysh 33%, Rigakhoy 30%, Tsadakharoy 30%, Buosoy 27%, Chinkhoy 23%, Tsesi 21%, Dishniy 20%, Biytaroy 18%, Gordaloy 17%, Melardoy 17%, Nizhaloy 14%, Aytkkhalloy 14%, Chungaroy 14%, Arganoy 11%, Turkoy 10%, Zandakoy 7%, Makazhoy 6%, Vashandaroy 6%, Gendargenoy 5%, Sesanoy 5%.

Branches and the teips on them

Below the 5,900-year-old node, where 46% of the Chechen carriers of J1 converge, there are two large branches. The teip lines are distributed differently between them.

The older branch, 5,600 years old, accounts for 22% of the line's carriers: Chantiy, Gunoy, Chinkhoy, Zumsoy, Dishniy, Sharoy, Gukhoy, Galoy and Gumkhoy — teips from five tukkhums. Within it, Gunoy, Chinkhoy and Gukhoy share a branch 1,200 years old — three teips from three different regions — while Chantiy and Zumsoy have branches of their own.

The younger branch, 3,900 years old, accounts for 19% of the carriers: Benoy, Biltoy, Bagacharoy, Hacharoy and the communities of Terloy. Benoy and Terloy converge in a node 1,850 years old, and below it Benoy have a branch of their own, 700 years old. Biltoy and Bagacharoy share a branch 1,000 years old.

A third, small branch lies outside these two. It holds Tumsoy, Dishniy and Merzhoy, whose common ancestor lived 800 years ago — three teips with no tukkhum in common, on a branch less than a thousand years old.

Traditions and the tree

Akhmadov and Suleymanov place Bovloy within the Terloy community. People from Bovloy and other Terloy communities — O'shni, Nikarkhoy, O'tti and Senkhoy — stand on the same branch of J1. Their common ancestor lived 1,200 years ago. This connection is consistent with the ethnographic records.

The people of the communities Chanta, Zumsa and Tumsa regard themselves as descendants of three brothers. All three teips have carriers on the older branch of J1, but the common ancestor of Chantiy and Zumsoy lived 4,800 years ago. Some Tumsoy share a branch 1,700 years old with Chantiy, and another group shares the third, small branch with Dishniy and Merzhoy.

The teips' own branches

On J1, 15 teips have young branches of their own. The common ancestors of these branches lived within the last 1,200 years.

Part of Benoy and part of O'shni are on one branch 850 years old.