The Eastern Yugur language is a Mongolic language spoken by some Yugurs, in contrast to the Turkic Western Yugur language. The Yugur people are an ethnic group. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... Western Yugur and Eastern Yugur are terms coined by Chinese linguists to distinguish between the Turkic and Mongolic Yugur language, both spoken within the Yugur nationality. ...