Line N among Kazakhs: the Siberian line among Sirgeli and Uak
The third largest paternal line among Kazakhs is N: 7% of the corpus. It is the line of Siberia and the North — of Yakuts, Nenets, Finns. Among Kazakhs it is concentrated in two tribes, Sirgeli and Uak.
The line of the North
N is the main male line of the peoples of the taiga and tundra from Finland to Chukotka, while in the Steppe there is noticeably less of it:
| People | Line share |
|---|---|
| Nenets | 99% |
| Yakuts | 90% |
| Khanty | 80% |
| Finns | 62% |
| Khakas | 41% |
| Buryats | 22% |
| Bashkirs | 17% |
| Mongols | 8% |
| Kazakhs | 7% |
| Kyrgyz | 4% |
Which N the Kazakhs have
Among Kazakhs most N is a branch 11,800 years old, the same as among Yakuts and Finns. Inside it there is a young branch 2,500 years old, which accounts for 4% of all Kazakhs. This branch is shared with the Buryats (20%) and the Nogais (8%), among Mongols it is 4%. Its common ancestor lived in the Iron Age, long after N came to Siberia.
Among Zhetiru N is mostly different: 78% of the tested carriers are on the Uralic branch, which leads to the Khanty and the Khakas. The two branches diverged more than ten thousand years ago.
Tribes on line N
The line dominates in one tribe — Sirgeli, and is notable in a few more:
| Tribe | Line share |
|---|---|
| Sirgeli | 68% |
Notable: Uak 38%, Jalayir 18%, Tore 11%, Zhetiru 11%, Alban 7%, Shaprashty 5%, Argyn 5%.
Sources
Khussainova et al. 2022; Zhabagin et al. 2020, 2021, 2024; Zhunussova et al. 2025; open Y-DNA data.
Your N — the young branch shared with the Buryats and the Nogais, or the Uralic one, as among Zhetiru, and whom does it converge with inside the Steppe?
The full tree of a line with the ages of all its branches, the distribution of clan lines inside each tribe, and comparison of tribes with one another — in the app.