The term Tungusic peoples is used to describe a peoples speaking a Tungusic languages. Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus languages) are spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. ...

Peoples

Tungusic peoples are:

• Evenks
• Evens
• Oroqen
• Ulchs
• Manchu
• Xibe
• Jurchens
• Nanai
• Oroch
• Ulch
• Udege
• Negidal
• Orok

The Evenks (obsolete: Tungus) are a nomadic Tungusic people, one of the Northern Indigenous Peoples (pop. ... The Evens or Eveny (formerly known as the Lamuts) (Эвены in Russian) are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. ... The Oroqen people(鄂伦春族) are an ethnic group in northern China. ... The Ulchis or Ulchs (Ульчи, ольчи in Russian; self designation: пани, or pani) are an indigenous people of Siberia. ... The Manchu (Manchu: Manju; Simplified Chinese: 满族; Traditional Chinese: 滿族; pinyin: MÇŽnzú) are a Tungusic people who originated in Manchuria (todays Northeast China). ... The Xibe ( Sibe; Chinese, 錫伯 XÄ«bó) are an ethnic group living mostly in northeast China and Xinjiang. ... The Jurchens (Traditional Chinese: 女眞; Simplified Chinese: 女真; pinyin: nÇšzhÄ“n) were a Tungus people who inhabited parts of Manchuria and northern Korea until the 17th century, when they became the Manchus. ... The Nanai people (self name нани; tr. ... Orochs or orochons is a small people of Russia that speak the Oroch (Orochon) dialect of the Southern group of Tungusic languages. ... Udege (Удэгейцы in Russian; self designation: удээ and удэхе, or udae and udekhe correspondingly) are a people in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai in Russia. ... Oroks (Ороки in Russian; self designation: ульта, or ulta) are a people in the Sakhalin Oblast (mainly, eastern part of the island) in Russia. ...

Location

The largest of the Tungusic peoples are Manchu numbering 10,000,000. They are originally from Northeast China(Manchuria), but since they conquered China in the 1600s, and especially during the 1900s, they have assimilated almost totally into the main Han population of China, though still living often in northern China. Evenks live in Evenk Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Manchuria (Manchu: Manju; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; Simplified Chinese: 满洲; pinyin: Mǎnzhōu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ... Evenk Autonomous Okrug (Russian: ), or Evenkia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Krasnoyarsk Krai). ...

References

• Mile Nedeljković, Leksikon naroda sveta, Beograd, 2001.

See also

• Tungusic languages