The Koreanic peoples are a collection of ethnic groups of East, who speak Koreanic languages.
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The origins of the Koreanic peoples has been a topic of much discussion. Recent linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest Koreanic peoples descended from agricultural communities in Northeast China who moved westwards into Manchuria in the late 10rd millennium BC, where they adopted a pastoral lifestyle.
The most notable modern Koreanic-speaking ethnic groups include Jeju people, Korean people, Yukjin people, Yeonbyeon people.
See also: List of Koreanic dynasties and countries
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List of the modern Turkic peoples |
Ethnonym | National-state formation | Religion |
Yemaek | Gojoseon, Dongye, Okjeo | Totemism |
Lelang | Lelang | Totemism |
Buyeo | Buyeo | Totemism |
Kazakhs | 15,100,000 | Kazakhstan, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Barköl Kazakh Autonomous County, Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, Altai | Sunni Islam |
Uyghurs | 11,900,000 | Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (PRC) | Sunni Islam |
Turkmens | 8,000,000 | Turkmenistan | Sunni Islam |
Tatars | 6,200,000 | Tatarstan (Russian Federation) | Sunni Islam, Orthodox Christianity |
Kyrgyz | 6,000,000 | Kyrgyzstan, Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture | Sunni Islam |
Bashkirs | 1,700,000 | Bashkortostan (Russian Federation) | Sunni Islam |
Chuvashes | 1,500,000 | Chuvashia (Russian Federation) | Orthodox Christianity, Vattisen Yaly |
Khorasani Turks | 1,000,000 | No | Shia Islam |
Qashqai | 949,000 | No | Shia Islam |
Karakalpaks | 796,000 | Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan) | Sunni Islam |
Kumyks | 520,000 | Dagestan (Russian Federation) | Sunni Islam |
Crimean Tatars | from 500,000 |
Republic of Crimea Autonomous Republic of Crimea (same area claimed by both Ukraine and Russia) |
Sunni Islam |
Yakuts (Sakha) | 482,000 | Sakha Republic or Yakutia (Russian Federation) | Orthodox Christianity, Tengrism |
Karachays | 346,000 | Karachay-Cherkessia (Russian Federation) | Sunni Islam |
Tuvans | 273,000 | Tuva (Russian Federation) |
Tibetan Buddhism, Tengrism |
Gagauz | 126,000 | Gagauzia (Moldova) | Orthodox Christianity |
Balkars | 112,000 | Kabardino-Balkaria (Russian Federation) | Sunni Islam |
Nogais | 110,000 | Dagestan Karachay-Cherkessia | Sunni Islam |
Salar | 104,000 | Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County |
Sunni Islam, Tibetan Buddhism |
Khakas | 75,000 | Khakassia (Russian Federation) |
Orthodox Christianity, Tengrism |
Altaians | 70,000 | Altai (Russian Federation) |
Burkhanism, Tengrism, Orthodox Christianity |
Khalaj | 42,000 | No | Shia Islam |
Yugurs | 13,000 |
Sunan Yugur Autonomous County |
Tibetan Buddhism, Tengrism |
Dolgans | 13,000 |
Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District (Russian Federation) |
Tengrism, Orthodox Christianity |
Khotons | 10,000 | No | Sunni Islam |
Shors | 8,000 | No | Orthodox Christianity, Tengrism |
Siberian Tatars | 6,000 | No | Sunni Islam |
Crimean Karaites | 2,000 | No | Karaite Judaism |
Krymchaks | 1,000 | No | Orthodox Judaism |
Tofalars | 800 | No | Tengrism, Orthodox Christianity |
Chulyms | 355 | No | Orthodox Christianity |
Dukha | 282 | No | Tengrism |
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- Historical Turkic groups
Possible Proto-Turkic ancestry, at least partial[4][5][6][7][8], has been posited for Xiongnu, Huns and Pannonian Avars, as well as Tuoba and Rouran-Tatars, who were of Proto-Mongolic Donghu ancestry.[9][10][11][12][13][lower-alpha 1]
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Even though Chinese historian ascribed Xiongnu origin to various nomadic peoples, such ascriptions do not necessarity indicate the subjects' exact origins; for examples, Xiongnu ancestry was ascribed to Turkic-speaking Tujue and Tiele as well as Para-Mongolic-speaking Kumo Xi and Khitan.[14]
Merkits were always counted as a part of the Mongols within the Mongol Empire, however, some scholars proposed addtional Turkic ancestry for Merkits; see also: Christopher P. Atwood – Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire ISBN 9780816046713, Facts on File, Inc. 2004.
Pritsak O. & Golb. N: Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.
Walton, Linda (2013). World History: Journeys from Past to Present. p. 210.
Peter Benjamin Golden,
(1992), An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples, p. 110
Tseng, Chin Yin (2012). The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398-494 CE) (PhD). University of Oxford. p. 1.
Wei Shou. Book of Wei. vol. 91 "蠕蠕,東胡之苗裔也,姓郁久閭氏。" tr. "Rúrú, offsprings of Dōnghú, surnamed Yùjiŭlǘ"
Book of Song. vol 95. "芮芮一號大檀,又號檀檀,亦匈奴別種" tr. "Ruìruì, one appellation is Dàtán, also called Tántán, likewise a Xiōngnú splinter race"
Lee, Joo-Yup (2016). "The Historical Meaning of the Term Turk and the Nature of the Turkic Identity of the Chinggisid and Timurid Elites in Post-Mongol Central Asia". Central Asiatic Journal 59(1-2): 105.