Do we know Kurds decend from Medes?
Also, I thought Hittites were more from that area where the mountains and Euphrates met, and Media was farther east. Just asking. I have very little historical study in it.
Clearly they are of Iranian aka Persian stock or more directly Aryan.
I have asked Personally, they universally say they descended from Madai the son of Japheth
I was going to ask the same question. It seems an assertion that would be difficult to support. Maybe with lots of DNA analysis. The Medes were the most populous tribe of Iranian peoples. The Pars tribe became dominant under Cyrus the Great, and the land became known as Persia. Did the Medes stay separate? Or did they intermingle with the Persians and others to the point that it could not be said they still exist? I don’t know, but I didn’t see any support for the claim in this article.
Kurdish is supposed to be an ancient, less Arab, Iranian language, but I always thought that was because their mountain region was less subject to total conquest, and they were left alone when Arabs imposed themselves.