Virjal or Viryal ( [vir] — upper, west and [yal] — village, community) is a subgroup of Chuvash people. Denomination "Virjal", i. e. upper, living upstream of Volga River, is opposed to Anatri ( [anat] — lower, east), i. e. Lower Chuvash, living downstream of Volga River.
Virjal or Viryal ( [vir] — upper, west and [yal] — village, community) is a subgroup of Chuvash people. Denomination "Virjal", i. e. upper, living upstream of Volga River, is opposed to Anatri ( [anat] — lower, east), i. e. Lower Chuvash, living downstream of Volga River.
==Origin== Some scientists suggest Upper Chuvash descend from Hill Maris, assimilated by Chuvashs. Anthropological analysis via mathematical simulation suggests Hill Maris and Upper Chuvashs are represented by the same anthropological type.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).