Altaic peoples

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Altaic peoples
Image:Turkman girl in national dress.jpg
Total population
Regions with significant populations
Siberia, Russia,Eastern Europe,Central Asia, northern and western China, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia
Religion
Animism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Shintoism, Shamanism
Related ethnic groups
possible relationship with Finno-Ugric peoples and Samoyedic peoples

Altaic peoples are peoples who speak the Altaic languages. Their looks differ from east to west. Admixture with nearby ethnic groups has created the effect so that the more west one goes the more Eurasian they look and the more east one goes the more Mongoloid they look. The Altaic peoples are believed to have roots in Siberia and Central Asia.

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The Altaic People

The term Turco-Mongol refers to Turkic and Mongolic peoples or tribes in combination, in particular in the context of the migration period Huns, which were comprised of unions of multiple ethnicities of Altaic clans, and the medieval Mongol Empire ("Turco-Mongol Empire").

There has been debate on a possible relationship with Uralic peoples, i.e. peoples speaking a Uralic language. Uralic peoples are divided into two groups: Finno-Ugric peoples (including Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians) and Samoyedic peoples (including Nenets).

Turkic peoples

An exact line between the different Turkic peoples cannot easily be drawn. The following is a non-comprehensive list of the major groups:

Mongolian Peoples

Mongolian tribes living in Mongolia

Mongolian tribes in Inner Mongolia China Note: In China they are all of these tribes are seen as Mongolians or Inner Mongolians

Mongolian tribes in China, outside of Inner Mongolia

Mongolian nationalities in China, recognized as nationalities.

Mongolian nationalities in Russia

Others (mainly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran)"

Tungusic Peoples

The largest of the Tungusic peoples are the Manchu who are around 10,000,000 in number. They are originally from Northeast China (Manchuria), but since they conquered China in the 1600s, and especially during the 1900s, they have almost totally been assimilated into the main Han Chinese population of China, though are often still living in northern China. Evenks live in the Evenk Autonomous Okrug of Russia.

Korean Peoples

Koreans mostly live in South Korea,North Korea and the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China. (854,000 in 2000).

Japanese Peoples

The Japanese people (Japonic) live mostly in Japan. Worldwide there are approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent.


Gallery of Altaic History

Map of Altaic speaking people, note that it does NOT show altaics who speak non altaic languages like the Hazara

A wood Bodhisattva from the Jurchen Jin Dynasty

Complex of Goguryeo tombs

Head of Seljuk male royal figure

Suleiman the Magnificent, a ruler of the Ottoman Turks

Genghis Khan

Bulgar warrior

Taj Mahal built byMughal Emperor Shah Jahan

Gokturk Khan; Kul Tigin

An Orkhon inscription from Tuva


Gallery of Altaic Peoples

A Japanese bride in wedding kimono

Korean dressed as a Joseon Queen

Uyghur children

Kyrgyz man performing epic poem

Manchurian royal costumes

A Mongolian musician

A Tungus man from Vorogovo

Throat singing Ensemble Alash from Tuva

Turkmen girl from Turkmenistan

A Dolgan

See also

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