Quote Originally Posted by econ21
Any EB team member want to comment on Saka-Rauka = Scythia translation?[1] The preview mentioned a couple of times that ancient writers sometimes referred to some Saka peoples as Skythians. No other translation suggested itself from the preview ("north eastern steppe faction" doesn't have a snappy ring to it).
Scythians is fine, although Sakas would be more accurate. Scythians is based on the general greek term for steepe peoples while Sakas is based on the persian, which is closer as the langauges of the Saka people seem to have been part of the iranian family of languages.