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B Steppe / Silk Road manti

The MANT- cluster (Uyghur manta, Central Asian manti, Anatolian mantı, Afghan mantu) carried by Turkic and Mongol peoples, with small boiled (joshpara/chuchvara), Mongolian (buuz, bansh), Himalayan (momo) and Caucasian (khinkali, contested) lines. Second pass adds the tutmaj cluster (Kashgari 1072 → Yinshan zhengyao 1330 → Ottoman tutmaç) and the khinkal cluster.

Routes: Han/Tang wheat corridor (Silk Road), Mongol and Turkic conduits, Lhasa Newar tradeClusters: mant, joshpara, tutmaj, khinkal, momo, mongolian