The Altaic peoples are the peoples who speak Altaic languages. The existence of the Altaic language family as a genetically related group is controversial, and that of Altaic peoples even more so. Altaic is a proposed 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 are classified by language family:
The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... North Asia is a subregion 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. ... The Entholinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map The Caucasus, a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... The Mongols are an ethnic group that originated in what is now Mongolia, Russia, and China, particularly Inner Mongolia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... North Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... The Entholinguistic patchwork of the modern Caucasus - CIA map The Caucasus, a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Tungus can mean several things: Tungus is an obsolete term for the Evenks of Russia. ... North Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
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.
Thus, in the language of Altaicpeople, 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 Altaicpeoples 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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