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Encyclopedia > Altaic people

The Altaic peoples are numerous ethnic and linguistic body of native peoples of Asia and East Europe (including the European part of Turkey). They speak Altaic languages. World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. ... Altaic is a language family which includes 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and Far East. ...


Ethno-cultural subdivisions

The following subgroups of the Altaic peoples:

The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ... Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... Honorary guard of Mongolia. ... Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Tungus can mean several things: Tungus is an obsolete term for the Evenks of Russia. ... The Evenks (obsolete: Tungus) are a nomadic indigenous people, one of the Northern Indigenous Peoples (pop. ... North Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...

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Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4727 words)
It was first used to describe the peoples that overran parts of Asia and Europe under Mongol leadership in the 13th century.
The name of Tatars, given to the invaders, was afterwards extended so as to include different stems of the same Turkic-Mongoloid branch in Russia, and even the bulk of the inhabitants of the high plateau of Asia and its northwestern slopes, described under the general name of Tartary.
In Europe the term Tartar is generally only used in the historical context for Mongolian people who appeared in the 13th century (the Mongol invasion) and assimilated into the local population later.
Turkish Language and the Native Americans (by Polat Kaya) - Media Monitors Network (4894 words)
Thus, in the language of Altaic people, the word "yitiken" would mean "seven suns" where the concept of "sun" and a "star" was probably considered to be the same.
It is quite likely that the decimal system of numbering and its application to social organisations of peoples may have been known to the ancestors of the Altaic peoples as early as 10000 or more years ago.
Ancient Central Asiatic peoples, among them the ancestors of Turks, are known to have migrated from their homelands in steps of Central Asia and Siberia to east, west, north and south.
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