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Does this term by any chance have any relationship to the Armenians? Gringo300 2 July 2005 03:56 (UTC)


I am thinking the same thing, I bet it does. I am reading a book on Armenian history and in it the Hurrians are described as being an "Armenoid" people. It would make sense too, since part of historical Armenia is in the Caucasus Mountains. The reason this makes sense is cause Armenoid is a sub-group of the white race.--Moosh88 06:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

No. The, it's just a coincidence. The term was coined to describe Assyrians. There are so called Armenoid Armenians though, i'd say 15-20% of all Armenians could be classified as such. Most Armenians are Dinaric, Med or Alpine, with small pockets of Nordics.
I'm not very familiar with the Dinarics, though I have heard of them. Gringo300 10:21, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
The population of South-Eastern Europe (Balkans) consists of Dinarics mostly. Dinaric race --Eupator 15:17, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

there are actually quite a few diffrences between Armenoids and Dinarics, it is not a pigmentation diffrence there is also nasal breadth and convenxity and forhead and other factors, i mean phenotypically many Ashkenazi jews are Armenoid in features (showing their near eastern hebraic ancestry) but lighter in features than even dinarics.Armenoids can even be quite light even within neareast, to see a classic armenoid aproaching coons plates one has to look at nazi stereotypes of jews in der stummer, they are in fact extreme exagerated charicatures of armenoids in general,however a Armenoid that extreme is usually more at home in the Caucasus and the levant than among ashkenazi jews who are usually very reduced in armenid phenotypes, the Ancient hebrews where probably Assyrid-Armenid. it is a common type among lebanese christians and druze, Walid Jumblatt is a good example of a Light armenoid with no european ancestry, he could pass for an ashkenazi jew, no trouble at all.--GorenSleiczik 03:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Armenoid simply describes a metrical type, and doesn't refer to any specific population, but a type found among several populations, mostly in the Near East (Levant, Anatolia). Many Armenians are metrically "Armenoid", thus the name. Funkynusayri 14:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

The line "Armenoids were considered Indo-European and not related to Semitic" is not supported by the source it cites. The source is a book review, and at one point paraphrases the author as saying, "Armenoid...is not necessarily the same thing as Semitic." It also later paraphrases the author as saying "the entry of 'alien' Armenoid type into Egypt is to be connected with the first coming of 'Semitic' folk into Sumerian Babylonia," and thus, if anything, contradicting the line. Wikinamenottaken (talk) 23:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)