Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups

Japheth ( Yép̄eṯ, in pausa Yā́p̄eṯ; '; ; ') was one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis. In the biblical narrative he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations, he is named as the ancestor of the peoples of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, Caucasus, Greece, and elsewhere in Eurasia.

Ethnogenesis (; ) is the formation and development of an ethnic group. This can originate by group self-identification or by outside identification.

theory of Indo-European origin

European ethnic group of Rucia

thumb|275x275px|Map of the migration from Aztlán to Chapultepec

region in which a proto-language was spoken

thumb|right|200px|Stanisław Antoni Szczuka in Sarmatian attire, wearing a [[kontusz]] thumb|"Treatise about two [[Sarmatia Asian and European and about their composition" by Maciej Miechowita (1517)]] thumb|200px|Sarmatian-style Karacena armor Sarmatism (or Sarmatianism; ; ) was an ethno-cultural identity within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was the dominant Baroque culture and ideology of the nobility () that existed in the time from the Renaissance to the early 18th century. Together with the concept of "Golden Liberty", it formed a central aspect of the Commonwealth social elites’

hypothesis

legendary ancient invasion of southern Greece

genealogy of the sons of Noah and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood found in Genesis

thumb|Table of tribes originating from Scandinavia according to Johannes Magnus|Johannes and [[Olaus Magnus, with references to [Jordanes, Paulus Diaconus, etc].]]thumb|A 16th century perception of a Goth, illustrated in the manuscript "Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel". Painted by Lucas de Heere|Lucas d'Heere in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Preserved in the [[Ghent University Library.]] right|thumb|Olof Rudbeck, a 17th-century spokesman for Gothicismus. thumb|Erik Gustaf Gei

Hawaiki (also rendered as in the Cook Islands, in Māori, in Samoan, in Tahitian, in Hawaiian) is, in Polynesian folklore, the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.

inspiring narrative about a nation's past

prehistoric urheimat of the Proto-Indo-European language

hypothesis in historical linguistics that the Urheimat of proto-Indo-European is in the Caucacus

view that the Indo-Aryans are indigenous to India

thumb|230px|right|This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore's [[Etymologiae (Augsburg 1472), identifies the three known continents (Asia, Europe, and Africa) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem (Shem), Iafeth (Japheth), and Cham (Ham).]]

theory that Ashkenazi Jews descended from Turkic Khazars

Appearance of Romanians

Academic theories on the origins of the Etruscan civilization

hypotheses of Basque ethnic origins

ethnogenesis

Early history of Albanians

argument about the territory where Proto-Indo-European language originated

Hypthesis for ancient human migrations to the Americas

thumb|250px|Ethnic groups in Eastern Europe in the late 9th-century and early 10th-century. Green represents Slavic tribes, orange represents Baltic tribes, and yellow represents Finno-Ugric tribes.

Ethnological origin of the Huns

overview about the origin of the Kurds

pseudohistorical interpretation of the origin of the Slovenes

theory of the origins of Dynastic Egypt

Sami people genetics

article on the Serbs

theories about the origins of the Pashtun tribes

Theorized ethnic group

literature describing the origin of a people in medieval studies

hypothetical linguistic homeland of the Proto-Afroasiatic language

book by Joan Peters

thumb|300px|Tower of the Jade Emperor (玉皇阁 Yùhuánggé), central pavilion of a temple to the supreme godhead, in Guide, [[Qinghai. Jade Emperor shrines are frequently built on raised platforms, especially in western China.]] Sino-Babylonianism is the theory (now rejected by most scholars) that in the third millennium B.C., the civilization which existed in the Babylonian region provided the essential elements of material civilization and language to what is now China. Albert Terrien de Lacouperie (1845–1894) was the first theorist to hypothesize that a massive migration by Babylonians brought th